GNU World Order is an internet audio show about GNU, Linux, UNIX, and other technical and geeky topics. I release this show in open source audio formats. This is an anarcho-syndacalist, anti-fascist, and pro-human-rights podcast. I stand in solidarity with all people of colour, of marginalised communities, and the oppressed around the globe. Leave your ad blockers on.

Listen:Ogg 0x0 | Opus 0x0

2008-12-31T09:05:01Z

New to Linux? Start here, and then try out OpenSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, or Slackware.

Listen:Ogg 0x1 | Opus 0x1

2018-07-26T12:17:30Z

So you wanna try Slackware? Well, you're in luck! this special episode steps you through everything you need to know.

Listen:Ogg 0x2 | Opus 0x2

2020-06-19T14:23:36Z

Special Juneteenth episode about anarchism, diversity, and what GNU World Order is all about.

Listen: Opus 556 | Ogg 556

2024-03-17T12:51:23Z

alpine, autofs, biff+comsat from n series of Slackware packages, and all about networking.

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Links:
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 555 | Ogg 555

2024-03-11T14:39:36Z

ModemManager and NetworkManager from the n series of Slackware packages, and all about networking.

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Links:
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 554 | Ogg 554

2024-03-04T13:38:29Z

Listener feedback, and a second look at netpbm from the l series of Slackware packages.

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Links:
Slackware
Package list
NetPBM

Listen: Opus 553 | Ogg 553

2024-02-26T15:48:40Z

t1lib, taglib, taglib-extras, talloc, tango-icon-theme, tdb, tevent, tidy-html5, utf8proc, v4l-utils, vid.stab, vte, wavpack, woff2, xapian-core, xxHash, zlib, zstd in the l series of Slackware packages.

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Links:
Slackware
Package list
vid.stab documentation on Slackermedia

Listen: Opus 552 | Ogg 552

2024-02-19T11:18:03Z

sbc, sdl, serf, sg3_utils, shared-desktop-ontologies, shared-mime-info, sip, slang, slang1, sound-theme-freedesktop, speech-dispatcher, speex, speexdsp, spirv-llvm-translator, startup-notification, svgalib, system-config-printer in the l series of Slackware packages.

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Links:
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 551 | Ogg 551

2024-02-12T11:28:06Z

qca, qrencode, qt5, qt5-webkit, qtkeychain, quazip, realine, rpcsvc-proto, rttr, rubygem-asciidoctor in the l series of Slackware packages.

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Links:
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 550 | Ogg 550

2024-02-05T12:00:21Z

polkit, polkit-{gnome,qt}, poppler, popt, pulseaudio, and commentary on all the Python modules pycairo, pycups, pycurl, pygobject, pygobject3, pygtk, pyparsing, python-Jinja2, python-MarkupSafe, python-PyYAML, python-appdirs, python-certifi, python-cffi, python-chardet, python-charset-normalizer, python-distro, pythondnspython, python-docutils, python-doxypypy, python-doxyqml, python-future, python-idna, python-markdown, python-notify2, python-packaging, python-pbr, python-pillow, python-ply, python-pycparser, python-pygments, python-pysol_cards, python-random2, python-requests, python-sane, python-setuptools, python-six, python-tomli, pythonurllib3, python2-module-collection in the l series of Slackware packages.

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Links:
Slackware
Package list
Learn Python

Listen: Opus 549 | Ogg 549

2024-01-28T20:22:19Z

pango, pangomm, parted, pcaudiolib, pcre, pcre2, phonon, phonon-backend-gstreamer, pilot-link, pipewire from the l series of Slackware packages.

Here's how to enable Pipewire on Slackware:


    $ sudo /usr/sbin/pipewire-enable.sh
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Links:
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 548 | Ogg 548

2024-01-22T11:12:10Z

Listener feedback from Deepgeek about Firefox.

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Links:
GetFirefox.org
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 547 | Ogg 547

2024-01-15T11:28:35Z

oci-icd, oniguruma, openal, opencv, openexr, openjpeg, opus, opusfile, orc from Slackware's l software set.

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Links:
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 546 | Ogg 546

2024-01-08T13:19:20Z

mm, mozilla-nss, mozjs78, mpfr, ncurses, neon, netpbm, newt from Slackware's l software set.

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Links:
GNU mpfr
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 545 | Ogg 545

2024-01-01T11:25:29Z

media-player-info, mhash, mlt from Slackware's l software set.

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Links:
MLT
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 544 | Ogg 544

2023-12-25T07:36:16Z

libxkbcommon, libxklavier, libxml2, libxslt, libyaml, libzip, lmdb, loudmouth, lz4, lzo from Slackware's l software set.

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Links:
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 543 | Ogg 543

2023-12-15T14:26:07Z

libunwind, liburing, libusb, libusbmuxd, libuv, libvisio, libvisual, libvncserver, libvorbis, libvpx, libwebp, libwmf, libwnck, libwpd, libwpg from Slackware's l software set.

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Links:
OpenNIC

Listen: Opus 542 | Ogg 542

2023-12-11T11:49:46Z

Visit the alternate Internet with OpenNIC

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Links:
OpenNIC

Listen: Opus 541 | Ogg 541

2023-12-04T12:05:59Z

libpcap, libplist, libpng, libproxy, libpsl, libqalculate, libraw1394, librevenge, librsvg, libsamplerate, libsass, libseccomp, libsecret, libsigc++, libsigsegv, libsndfile, libsodium, libsoup, libspectre, libssh, libtasn1, libtheora, libtiff, libunistring from the l software set of Slackware Linux.

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Links:
TechnicallyWeWrite.com
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 540 | Ogg 540

2023-11-27T11:46:09Z

Teaching things to new users, listener feedback.

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Links:
TechnicallyWeWrite.com

Listen: Opus 539 | Ogg 539

2023-11-20T11:25:08Z

libnice, libnih, libnjb, libnl, libnl3, libnotify, libnsl, libnss, libodfgen, libogg, liboggz, libopusenc from the l software series of Slackware.

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Links:
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 538 | Ogg 538

2023-11-13T12:39:33Z

libieee1284, libimobiledevice, libindicator, libiodbc, libjpeg-turbo, libkarma, libmad, libmcrypt, libmng, libmpc, libmtp from the l software series of Slackware.

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Links:
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 537 | Ogg 537

2023-11-06T11:24:06Z

A filler episode (technically listener feedback!) about Void Linux.

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Links:
Void Linux Handbook
Slackermedia Handbook
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 536 | Ogg 536

2023-10-30T10:16:05Z

libedit, libevent, libexif, libfakekey, libffi, libglade, libgnome-keyring, libgnt, libgphoto2, libgpod, libgsf, libgtop, libical, libid3tag, libidl from the l software series of Slackware.

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Links:
libedit
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 535 | Ogg 535

2023-10-23T16:04:35Z

libburn, libcaca, libcanberra, libcap, libcap-ng, libcddb, libcdio, libcdio-paranoia, libclc, libcue, libdbusmenu, libdbusmenu-qt, libdiscid, libdmtx, libdvdnav, libdvdread from the l software series of Slackware.

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Links:
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 534 | Ogg 534

2023-10-16T10:57:10Z

lensfun, libao, libappindicator, libarchive, libasyncns, libatasmart, libbluray from the l software series of Slackware.

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Links:
Lensfun
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 533 | Ogg 533

2023-10-08T19:11:25Z

lame and lcms from the l software series of Slackware.

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Links:
Little-CMS
Lame
Papers about MP3 compression
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 532 | Ogg 532

2023-10-02T09:32:00Z

jasper, jemalloc, jmtpfs, json-c, json-glib, judy, kdsoap, keybinder, and keyutils from the l software series of Slackware.

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Links:
Jasper
Jemalloc
jmtpfs
Judy
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 531 | Ogg 531

2023-09-24T08:17:34Z

isl, iso-codes, and jansson from the l software series of Slackware.

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Links:
Jansson
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 530 | Ogg 530

2023-09-18T10:55:35Z

Listener feedback. The year of the Linux desktop. Flatpaks and the future.

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Links:
Ubuntu bug #1
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 529 | Ogg 529

2023-09-11T09:07:45Z

icon-naming-utils, icu4c, id3lib, imagemagick from the l software series of Slackware.

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Links:
Image Magick
Fred's Image Magick scripts
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 528 | Ogg 528

2023-09-04T12:38:31Z

harfbuzz, hicolor-icon-theme, hunspell, hyphen from the l software series of Slackware.

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Links:
Harfbuzz
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 527 | Ogg 527

2023-08-28T11:30:13Z

gsl, gstreamer and plugins, a bunch of gtk libs, and gvfs from the l software series of Slackware.

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Links:
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 526 | Ogg 526

2023-08-21T09:37:51Z

gobject-introspection, grantlee, graphene, graphite2, and gsettings-desktop-schemas from the l software series of Slackware..

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Links:
GObject tutorial
GObject-introspection docs
Graphene
Slackware
Package list
Tabletop-club

Listen: Opus 525 | Ogg 525

2023-08-14T09:50:22Z

glibc, all of the glib packages, gmime, gmm, and gmp from the l software series of Slackware, and musings about the usefulness of errors.

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Links:
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 524 | Ogg 524

2023-08-07T17:18:05Z

gjs and glade from the l software series of Slackware.

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Links:
GJS Guide
Slackware
Package list

Listen: Opus 523 | Ogg 523

2023-07-31T11:34:00Z

Virtual Lego on Linux.

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Links:
Ldraw
Lpub3d
Goxel

Listen: Opus 522 | Ogg 522

2023-07-24T10:56:44Z

gamin, gc, gcr, gd, gdbm, gdk-pixbuf2, gdk-pixbuf2-xlib, gegl, gexiv, giflib from the l software set in Slackware, and a disussion of the state of Free Software.

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Links:
Slackware
Package list
FSF

Listen: Opus 521 | Ogg 521

2023-07-17T08:00:54Z

Community.

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Links:
Opensource.org
FSF

Listen: Opus 520 | Ogg 520

2023-07-10T13:21:33Z

fftw, fluidsynth, freecell-solver, freetype, frei0r, fribidi, fuse from the l software set of Slackware.

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Links:
Slackware
Package list
Freecell-solver
Polyphone soundfont creator and repository

Listen: Opus 519 | Ogg 519

2023-07-03T10:25:11Z

More about EPUB, and then farstream and ffmpeg

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Links:
Slackware
Package list
FFmpeg

Listen: Opus 518 | Ogg 518

2023-06-26T11:09:11Z

ebook-tools, editorconfig, eigen3, elfutils, enchant, esound, espeak-ng, exiv2, expat from Slackware software series l.

m4a 0ad43c4b3333d2170bf0b2e6ec9845ab7b63dfa8faabe0cc06877a5f73a19a67
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Links:
Slackware
Package list
Editorconfig.org
Coqui-ai TTS

Listen: Opus 517 | Ogg 517

2023-06-19T17:48:30Z

db48, dbus-glib, dbus-python, dconf, dconf-editor, desktop-file-utils, djvulibre, dotconf, and dvdauthor from Slackware software series l.

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Links:
Slackware

Listen: Opus 516 | Ogg 516

2023-06-12T12:56:11Z

atk, atkmm, audiofile, babl, boost, brotli, cairo, cairomm, cfitsio, chmlib, clucene, and cryFS from Slackware software series l.

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Links:
Slackware

Listen: Opus 515 | Ogg 515

2023-06-05T12:43:32Z

Apache Portable Runtime (apr and apr-util), argon2, aspell, at-spi2-atk and at-spi2-core and accessibility.

Here's a demo simple cat command coded with Apache Portable Runtime:


#include <apr_general.h>
#include <apr_pools.h>
#include <apr_file_io.h>

int main(){
  //setup
  apr_initialize();
  apr_pool_t *mypool;
  apr_pool_create(&mypool, NULL);
  apr_file_t *file;
  char *myfile = "text.txt";

  //cat
  apr_file_open(&file, myfile, APR_READ, APR_OS_DEFAULT, mypool);
  apr_off_t offset = 0;
  apr_file_seek(file, APR_END, &offset);
  apr_size_t size = offset;
  char *mybuffer = apr_pcalloc(mypool, size +1);
  offset = 0;
  apr_file_seek(file, APR_SET, &offset);
  apr_file_read(file, mybuffer, &size);
  printf(mybuffer);

  //cleanup
  apr_file_close(file);
  apr_pool_destroy(mypool);
  apr_terminate();
  return 0;
}

To compile:


$ gcc -I/usr/include/apr-1 -lapr-1 -o mycat mycat.c
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Links:
Apache Portable Runtime (apr)
Accessibility on KDE

Listen: Opus 514 | Ogg 514

2023-05-29T12:07:48Z

Comparing Drupal, Wordpress, and Static Site CMS

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Links:
Wordpress
Drupal
Jekyl and Git tutorial
Jekyl
Grav
Sysadmin Signal

Listen: Opus 513 | Ogg 513

2023-05-22T12:53:12Z

aalib, accountservice, adwaita-icon-theme packages from the Slackware l software series, and a whole lot about ALSA and Linux audio.

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Links:
Slackware

Listen: Opus 512 | Ogg 512

2023-05-15T13:39:36Z

PyQt5, QtAV, and a bunch of SDL2 packages from the Slackware l software series.

m4a c847f36357e1f99fa47d420783bd29b884588fc32ad7d4f60970fe7c8d6b3522
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Links:
SDL2
PyQt at Riverbank Computing
Qt
Slackware

Listen: Opus 511 | Ogg 511

2023-05-08T11:44:16Z

GConf, Libraw, M2Crypto, Mako, QScintilla from the Slackware l software series.

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Links:
Packet Pushers podcast
Slackware

Listen: Opus 510 | Ogg 510

2023-05-01T15:52:41Z

Musing about the state of podcasting in 2023.

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Links:
Slackware

Listen: Opus 509 | Ogg 509

2023-04-23T10:36:05Z

step, svgpart, sweeper, syndication, syntax-highlighting, systemsettings, threadweaver, umbrello, wacomtablet, xdg-desktop-portal-kde, yakuake, and zeroconf-ioslave from the kde software series of Slackware.

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Links:
KDE
Slackware

Listen: Opus 508 | Ogg 508

2023-04-17T11:10:00Z

solid, sonnet, and spectacle from the kde software series of Slackware.

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Links:
KDE
Slackware

Listen: Opus 507 | Ogg 507

2023-04-09T12:32:46Z

qqc2-breeze-style, qqc2-desktop-style, rocs, sddm, sddm-kcm, skanlite from the kde software series of Slackware.

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Links:
KDE
Slackware

Listen: Opus 506 | Ogg 506

2023-04-02T17:13:52Z

Musing about command names, replacement commands, and system-wide functions.

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Links:
Slackware

Listen: Opus 505 | Ogg 505

2023-03-27T09:54:28Z

polkit-kde-agent, powerdevil, poxml, print-manager, prison, pulseaudio-qt, purpose from the Slackware kde package set.

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Links:
KDE
Slackware

Listen: Opus 504 | Ogg 504

2023-03-20T14:03:55Z

plasma-wallpapers, and the rest of plasma-workspace ( ksmserver, ksplashqml , plasma-apply-colorscheme , plasma-apply-cursortheme , plasma-apply-desktoptheme , plasma-apply-lookandfeel , plasma-apply-wallpaperimage , plasma-interactiveconsole , plasma-shutdown , plasma_session , plasma_waitforname , plasmashell , plasmawindowed , startkwayland , startplasma-wayland , startplasma-x11 , systemmonitor , xembedsniproxy) from the Slackware kde package set.

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Links:
Plasma scripting
KWin scripting
Recreate Unity with Plasma scripting

Listen: Opus 503 | Ogg 503

2023-03-13T11:40:24Z

plasma-workspace (gmenudbusmenuproxy, kcminit, kcminit_startup, kcolorschemeeditor, kde-systemd-start-condition, kfontinst, kfontview, klipper, and krunner) from the Slackware kde package set.

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Links:
KDE apps
Slackware

Listen: Opus 502 | Ogg 502

2023-03-05T16:02:29Z

plasma-frameworks and QML, plasma-integration, plasma-nm, plasma-pa, plasma-sdk, plasma-systemmonitor, plasma-vault, plasma-wayland-protocols from the Slackware kde package set.

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Links:
KDE apps
QML tutorials
Slackware

Listen: Opus 501 | Ogg 501

2023-02-28T05:51:23Z

pim-data-exporter, pim-sieve-editor, pim-common, plasma-browser-integration, plasma-desktop, plasma-disks, plasma-firewall from the Slackware kde package set.

m4a 058b5a0839ac7af7101bbd2058bb180258eca33a83733037c7aac0fadc87d4c8
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Links:
KDE apps
Slackware

Listen: Opus 500 | Ogg 500

2023-02-20T22:35:05Z

parley, partition-manager, picmi from the Slackware kde package set.

m4a 1659b3490308b8c75df179c7105082c86f099b30865d919e8d417ad896eaaa40
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Links:
KDE apps
Slackware

Listen: Opus 499 | Ogg 499

2023-02-13T09:27:48Z

Okteta hex editor, the Oxygen theme files, and the palapeli jigsaw puzzle emulator from the Slackware kde package set.

m4a c0da8d2344d24cee9ceac1376219ea5dbe7479197f4a7cc9d68707009cc86f38
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Links:
KDE apps
Slackware

Listen: Opus 498 | Ogg 498

2023-02-06T08:44:05Z

libkdepim, libkedevocdocument, libkexiv, libkgapi, libkipi, libkleo, libkmahjongg, libkomparediff2, libksane, libkscreen, libksieve, libksysguard, libktorrent, lokalize, lskat, mailcommon, mailimporter, marble, markdownpart, mbox-importer, messagelib, milou, minuet, modemmanager, networkmanager-qt from the Slackware kde package set.

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Links:
KDE apps
Slackware

Listen: Opus 497 | Ogg 497

2023-01-29T18:11:31Z

latte dock, layer-shell-qt, libgravatar, libkcddb, libkcompactdisc, libkdcraw, libkdegames from the Slackware kde package set.

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Links:
KDE apps
Slackware

Listen: Opus 496 | Ogg 496

2023-01-23T12:59:42Z

kunitconversion, kwallet, kwallet-pam, kwalletmanager, the kwave audio editor, kwayland, kwayland-integration, kwayland-server, kwidgetsaddons, kwin, kwindowsystem, kwordquiz flash card app, kwrited to receive write and wall notifications, kxmlgui, and kxmlrpcclient from the Slackware kde package set.


$ kwin_wayland_wrapper
$ QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland kwrite
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Links:
KDE apps
Slackware

Listen: Opus 495 | Ogg 495

2023-01-16T22:13:24Z

ktnef, ktorrent, ktouch, kturtle, kubrick from the Slackware kde package set.

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Links:
KDE apps
Slackware

Listen: Opus 494 | Ogg 494

2023-01-09T13:21:54Z

ksystemlog, ksystemstats, ktextwidgets, kteatime, ktexteditor, ktimer, ktimetracker from the Slackware kde package set.

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Links:
KDE apps
Slackware

Listen: Opus 493 | Ogg 493

2023-01-01T11:20:24Z

ksirk, ksmtp, ksnakeduel, ksquares, ksshaskpass, kstars, ksudoku, ksystemlog from the Slackware kde package set.

m4a 3b63fb02de04e332cdab56a4f62a379cf546ecdb2207484f8ecc3e3e618eecb1
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Links:
KDE apps
Slackware

Listen: Opus 492 | Ogg 492

2022-12-27T11:47:22Z

A useful kservice example, and listener email about ZFS backups

$ mkdir ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus
$ cat << EOF >> ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/setfattr.desktop
[Desktop Entry] 
Type=Service 
MimeType=all/allfiles;
Actions=mysetfattr 

[Desktop Action mysetfattr] 
Name=Add metadata 
Icon=/usr/share/icons/breeze/actions/symbolic/insert-text-symbolic.svg 
Exec=setfattr --name user.tag --value "\$(kdialog --textinputbox 'Enter metadata')" %f
EOF
$ chmod +x ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/setfattr.desktop

Instead of using --textinputbox, you could use, for instance, a --combobox:

$ kdialog --combobox 'Enter metadata' foo bar baz

To view the metadata, you can do this:

$ mkdir ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus
$ cat << EOF >> ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/getfattr.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
MimeType=all/allfiles;
Actions=mygetfattr

[Desktop Action mygetfattr]
Name=Show metadata
Icon=/usr/share/icons/breeze/actions/symbolic/insert-text-symbolic.svg
Exec=kdialog --msgbox "\$(getfattr --dump %f)"
EOF
$ chmod +x ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/setfattr.desktop
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Links:
Slackware

Listen: Opus 491 | Ogg 491

2022-12-19T12:08:40Z

kscreen, kscreenlocker, kservice, kshisen from the Slackware KDE software set.

m4a 72ade9f15c9c1852e62327d98e53e3a6068d7cd771df7968ff546a200e1570f7
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Links:
Slackware

Listen: Opus 490 | Ogg 490

2022-12-12T12:20:57Z

  1. back up what you care about
  2. back up stuff that isn't backed up
  3. back up what you can in the way you can, but BE CONSISTENT
  4. make it easy
  5. use a supported backup application
  6. know how to recover
  7. off-site is best
  8. encrypted data is best
  9. rotate your backups, monitor disk space
  10. check in on your backups

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Links:
Slackware
rdiff-backup
Mageia

Listen: Opus 489 | Ogg 489

2022-12-02T19:32:08Z

Are cloud services and open source even compatible?

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Links:
Slackware
K3s lightweight Kubernetes
Podman Desktop containers
Sandstorm package manager

Listen: Opus 488 | Ogg 488

2022-11-28T10:14:20Z

Krita, kross, kross-interpreters, kruler, krunner, krusader from the Slackware k software series.

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Links:
KDE apps
Slackware

Listen: Opus 487 | Ogg 487

2022-11-21T11:42:53Z

korganizer, kosmindoormap, kpackage, kparts, kpat, kpeople, kpeoplevcard, kpimtextedit, kpkpass, kplotting, kpmcore, kpty, kpublictransport, kqtquickcharts, kquickcharts, krdc and krfb, krename, and kreversi from the Slackware k software series.

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ogg d81ad079ce8ffa6a5eb2131339b20f46898b81af85678dbffe5f9a504bfbb7a0
Links:
Plasmoid tutorial
Join Mastodon
Slackware

Listen: Opus 486 | Ogg 486

2022-11-14T13:59:20Z

kontact, kontactinterface, kontrast, konversation, kopeninghours, kopete, and the great Mastodon influx.

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Links:
KDE.org
Join Mastodon

Listen: Opus 485 | Ogg 485

2022-11-07T18:50:02Z

kompare, konqueror, konquest, konsole from the KDE software series of Slackware.

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Links:
KDE.org

Listen: Opus 484 | Ogg 484

2022-10-31T09:58:01Z

kmplot, kmymoney, knetwalk, knavalbattle, knewstuff, knights, knotes, knotifications, knotifyconfig, kolf, kollision, kolourpaint from the KDE software series of Slackware.

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ogg 2eee814865dd630ba0c4a6f889fa0d8f999bacec02a87b2fa317876eb6cfbb28
Links:
KDE.org

Listen: Opus 483 | Ogg 483

2022-10-23T13:22:48Z

kmime, kmines, kmix, kmousetool, kmouth from the KDE software series of Slackware.

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Links:
KDE.org

Listen: Opus 482 | Ogg 482

2022-10-17T09:36:25Z

kmahjongg, kmail, kmail-account-wizard, kmailtransport, kmbox, kmediaplayer, kmenuedit from the KDE software series of Slackware.

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Links:
KDE.org

Listen: Opus 481 | Ogg 481

2022-10-10T09:34:52Z

5 reasons you should be using LibreOffice.

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Links:
LibreOffice.org

Listen: Opus 480 | Ogg 480

2022-10-02T16:12:46Z

kldap, kleopatra, klickety, klines, and kmag from the KDE software series of Slackware.

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Links:
KDE

Listen: Opus 479 | Ogg 479

2022-09-26T14:18:02Z

kipi-plugins, kirigami-gallery, kirigami2, kiriki, kitemmodels, kitemviews, kiten from the KDE software series of Slackware.

m4a cfc3307a7459fcbb7026149df1b1f26c5877f228f78d4cafb52a7981578c5c98
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Links:
The original Black Box
KDE

Listen: Opus 478 | Ogg 478

2022-09-19T11:22:49Z

kipi-plugins, kirigami-gallery, kirigami2, kiriki, kitemmodels, kitemviews, kiten from the KDE software series of Slackware.

m4a 0e9c7e07bf474669f78fd1ad271fb0424cef276672df6db7f7e508278a49da75
spx 13b8c9509b20a4fdb5dbd9ecaf46d2ab2383271b0ae58a099fbe8bdd5c0a252e
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Links:
The original Black Box
KDE

Listen: Opus 477 | Ogg 477

2022-09-12T10:56:48Z

Musing about diversity of choice and gaming online.

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Links:
Vassal engine
Cockatrice
Mythic Table
Jitsi

Listen: Opus 476 | Ogg 476

2022-09-04T13:36:30Z

kimagemapeditor, kimap, kinfocenter, kinit, kio, kio-extras, and kio-gdrive (sort of) from the Slackware kde package set.

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Links:
KDE apps

Listen: Opus 475 | Ogg 475

2022-08-29T10:44:24Z

kile and LaTeX, killbots, kimageformats from the Slackware kde package set.

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Links:
KDE apps

Listen: Opus 474 | Ogg 474

2022-08-21T21:22:17Z

kicontheme, kid3, kidentitymanagement, kidletime, kig, kigo from the Slackware kde package set.

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Links:
KDE apps

Listen: Opus 473 | Ogg 473

2022-08-15T13:16:39Z

sbotools

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Links:
KDE apps
sbotools

Listen: Opus 472 | Ogg 472

2022-08-08T10:07:55Z

kgpg, kguiaddons, khangman, khelpcenter, kholidays, khotkeys, khtml, ki18n from Slackware set kde.

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Links:
KDE apps

Listen: Opus 471 | Ogg 471

2022-08-01T10:30:49Z

kgamma, kgeorgraphy, kget, kglobalaccel, kgoldrunner from Slackware set kde.

m4a 00c001c727fa78cc053eaea5a1a5c68252e291a548f84eac40f2a8caa178dda3
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Links:
KDE apps

Listen: Opus 470 | Ogg 470

2022-07-25T12:08:33Z

kdiamond,kdnssd,kdoctools,keditbookmarks,kemoticons,kfilemetadata,kfind,kfloppy,kfourinline from Slackware set kde.

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Links:
KDE apps

Listen: Opus 469 | Ogg 469

2022-07-18T15:09:17Z

kdev-php, kdev-python, the kdevelop IDE, kdewebkit, kdf, kdiagram, kdialog from Slackware set kde.

m4a a6ccba69bd0c6660a74e319a2e13f294221c5d597818f3169b9932b8de5b7312
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Links:
KDE apps
Minuimus.pl
pdfhaggle

Listen: Opus 468 | Ogg 468

2022-07-11T15:18:10Z

kdepim-addons, kdepim-runtime, kdeplasma-addons, kdesdk-kioslaves, kdesdk-thumbnailers, kdesignerplugin, kdesukdepim-addons, kdepim-runtime, kdeplasma-addons, kdesdk-kioslaves, kdesdk-thumbnailers, kdesignerplugin, kdesu from Slackware set kde.

m4a c743342501356d0f38d7e665656448a18813b1b5dba2b8c82bad4c4d1133c3f0
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Links:
KDE apps

Listen: Opus 467 | Ogg 467

2022-07-04T13:12:33Z

kdecoration, kded5, kdeedu-data, kdegraphics-mobipocket, kdegraphics-thumbnailer, kdelibs4support, kdenetwork-filesharing, and kdenlive from Slackware set kde.

m4a 6f52aa1b423ba21046eed94d25f063cc8bbd09290dd0a86e180978ab4efbe8b6
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Links:
KDE apps

Listen: Opus 466 | Ogg 466

2022-06-27T13:26:40Z

kde-dev-scripts, kde-dev-utils, kde-gtk-config, kdebugsettings, kdeclarative, and kdeconnect. from Slackware set kde.

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Links:
KDE apps

Listen: Opus 465 | Ogg 465

2022-06-20T13:03:07Z

kdav, kdubaddons, and a dozen kde-cli-tools from Slackware set kde.

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Links:
KDE apps
IPC

Listen: Opus 464 | Ogg 464

2022-06-13T10:26:28Z

kcodecs, kcolorchooser, kcompletion, kconfig, kconfigwidgets, kcontacts, kcoreaddons, kcrash, and kcron from Slackware set kde.

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Links:
KDE apps
ColourPicker by Stuart Langridge

Listen: Opus 463 | Ogg 463

2022-06-06T13:55:20Z

kbruch, kcachegrind, kcalc, kcalendarcore, kcalutils, kcharselect, kcm-fcitx, and kcmutils from Slackware set kde.

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Links:
KDE apps

Listen: Opus 462 | Ogg 462

2022-05-30T15:18:56Z

Can you rename a file that's set to read-only? If you said "no" then you don't know UNIX file permissions as well as you think you do. Hear all about the details in this episode.

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Links:
Slackware

Listen: Opus 461 | Ogg 461

2022-05-23T21:25:07Z

katomic, kauth, kbackup, kblackbox, kblocks, kbookmarks, kbounce, kbreakout from the kde software series of Slackware.

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Links:
KDE apps

Listen: Opus 460 | Ogg 460

2022-05-16T11:03:58Z

kapidox, kapman, kapptemplate, karchive, and kate from the kde software series of Slackware.

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Links:
KDE apps

Listen: Opus 459 | Ogg 459

2022-05-09T11:06:09Z

kaddressbook, kalarm, kalarmcal, kalgebra, kalzium, kamera, kamoso, and kanagram from the KDE software series of Slackware.

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Links:
KDE apps

Listen: Opus 458 | Ogg 458

2022-05-02T10:56:23Z

Installing software on Slackware with slpkg.

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Links:
slpkg
Slackbuilds.org
Slackware

Listen: Opus 457 | Ogg 457

2022-04-25T13:08:29Z

Installing software on Slackware.

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Links:
Slackware
Slackbuilds.org
AlienBob SlackBuilds

Listen: Opus 456 | Ogg 456

2022-04-18T15:07:57Z

itinerary, juk, k3b, and kactivities from the KDE software series.

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Links:
KDE
Juk
Itinerary
Itinerary for Android
K3b

Listen: Opus 455 | Ogg 455

2022-04-11T10:06:12Z

ffmpegthumbs, filelight, framework integrations, granatier, grantlee, and gwenview from the KDE software series.

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Links:
KDE
Elisa
Falkon

Listen: Opus 454 | Ogg 454

2022-04-04T13:29:44Z

Dr. Konqi, Elisa, eventviewer, extra-cmake-modules, and Falkon.

Here's the coffee mug mentioned in this episode.

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Links:
KDE
Elisa
Falkon

Listen: Opus 453 | Ogg 453

2022-03-28T11:09:40Z

Dolphin, the KDE file manager, and some musings about an essay by programmer Gail Ollis.

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Links:
Dolphin
97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know

Listen: Opus 452 | Ogg 452

2022-03-20T15:00:59Z

Installing from source and installing binaries with pkgsrc.

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Links:
Pkgsrc
NetBSD

Listen: Opus 451 | Ogg 451

2022-03-14T13:27:54Z

All about Slackbuilds.org, and how to get more software on your Slackware system.

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Links:
SlackBuilds.org
AlienBOB
Slacky.eu
Slackonly.com
Fedora pub
CentOS pub

Listen: Opus 450 | Ogg 450

2022-03-07T14:56:49Z

Calligra Plan, Cantor, Cervisia, and Digikam.

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Links:
Cantor
Digikam tutorial
Digikam

Listen: Opus 449 | Ogg 449

2022-02-28T20:07:04Z

The rest of Calligra.

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Links:
Calligra
Historical KOffice repo

Listen: Opus 448 | Ogg 448

2022-02-21T11:11:14Z

Bluez-Qt and Calligra Words.

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Links:
Calligra
Bluez-Qt

Listen: Opus 447 | Ogg 447

2022-02-13T11:57:26Z

Slackware 15 has [still] been released, and in this episode, thanks to feedback from Hackerdefo and Blackernel, Klaatu lists all the ways you can install it. There are several. Also discussed are blinken, bluedevil (skipping bluez-qt by accident), bomber, and bovo.

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Links:
CVE alerts
Sacha Chua Emacs blog
Julia Evans tech blog
Opensource.com
Campaign Wiki tabletop RPG planet

Listen: Opus 446 | Ogg 446

2022-02-06T20:02:16Z

Slackware 15 has been released. In the second half of the show, packages attica, audiocd-kio, baloo, and baloo-widgets.

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Links:
Attica
Kio
Baloo

Listen: Opus 445 | Ogg 445

2022-01-31T19:44:50Z

The kde software series continues with Alkimia, Analitza, and Ark.

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Links:
Alkimia
Analitza
Ark

Listen: Opus 444 | Ogg 444

2022-01-25T06:35:16Z

The kde software series continues with the Akregator RSS feed reader.

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Links:
Akregator
Atom specification
althttpd

Listen: Opus 443 | Ogg 443

2022-01-17T21:06:09Z

The kde software series begins. In this episode, all about akonadi.

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Links:
Akonadi
Ktown

Listen: Opus 442 | Ogg 442

2022-01-09T14:08:21Z

The f and k software series of Slackware: Linux FAQ and the Linux kernel.

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Links:
Slackware documentation site
Kernel.org
Compiling a kernel (Slackermedia)
Compiling a kernel (docs.slackware.com)

Listen: Opus 441 | Ogg 441

2022-01-02T09:37:47Z

GNU Emacs, the beginning and ending of the E software series of Slackware.

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Links:
Emacs
Sacha Chua
Xah Lee

Listen: Opus 440 | Ogg 440

2021-12-26T16:46:48Z

Swig and yasm, concluding the d software series of Slackware.

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Links:
Swig
Yasm
Linux Terminal Server Project
Thinstation
OpenNX
BlacKernel's Journey into Technology

Listen: Opus 439 | Ogg 439

2021-12-19T19:25:59Z

Listener feedback, and a look at Bitkeeper, the version control system that compelled Linus Torvalds to create Git.

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Links:
Bitkeeper

Listen: Opus 438 | Ogg 438

2021-12-13T09:01:27Z

The strace and subversion commands from Slackware software series d.

This episode has been updated to resolve a timing issue with the coffee break music.

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Links:
strace
Apache Subversion

Listen: Opus 437 | Ogg 437

2021-12-06T07:46:00Z

Listener feedback.

This is the Git hook example. Save it as .git/hook/pre-commit in a valid Git repository, and make it executable with chmod +x .git/hook/pre-commit. It gets called any time you tell Git to commit a file, and replaces foo with bar before committing the file.


#!/bin/sh

sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' $(git diff --cached --name-only)
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Links:
Slackware

Listen: Opus 436 | Ogg 436

2021-11-28T21:33:25Z

Slacktrack and SCons from the d software series.

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Links:
Slacktrack
SCons

Listen: Ogg 435 | Opus 435

2021-11-21T14:27:54Z

The RCS revision control system and Ruby. Here is the code from this episode:


#!/usr/bin/env ruby

class Character
  def initialize(name,role,lvl)
    hp = rand(8)+1
    @spells = ["cantrip", "chill touch", "detect undead"]
    puts("You are #{name}, a level #{lvl} #{role}")
  end #init

  def listspells()
    puts("#{@spells}")
  end #list

  def spellcast(n)
    puts("You cast #{@spells[n]}")
    dice = rand(20) + 1

    if dice < 10 then
      puts("Your spell pops and fizzles. Nothing happens.")
    else
      puts("Your spell does #{dice} damage.")
    end #if
  end #spellcast
end #class

if __FILE__ == $0 then
  pc = Character.new("Bob","Wizard",1)
  pc.listspells()
  pc.spellcast(1)
  pc.spellcast(0)
end
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Links:
Ruby
RCS

Listen: Ogg 434 | Opus 434

2021-11-15T07:46:02Z

Listener feedback. Linux systems without GNU. Systemd and the search for feature parity across POSIX.

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Links:
Copyleft Next
ariadnavigo.xyz blog

Listen: Ogg 433 | Opus 433

2021-11-07T20:00:48Z

How to deliver Python packages with setuptools.

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Links:
Python packaging

Listen: Ogg 432 | Opus 432

2021-11-01T11:07:39Z

Reflections on Python.

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Links:
Python

Listen: Ogg 431 | Opus 431

2021-10-24T13:24:06Z

Pkgconfig or pkg-config, a BSD make command called pmake, and listener feedback about assemly code, and Perl, and using udev for mobile connection.

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Links:
Pkgconfig
BlacKernel explains assembly on Hacker Public Radio
Perl shift function
Udev rules for Android

Listen: Ogg 430 | Opus 430

2021-10-17T11:37:34Z

GNU parallel and patchelf from NixOS.

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Links:
Parallel tutorials (video)
Parallel documentation
PatchELF

Listen: Ogg 429 | Opus 429

2021-10-10T12:08:04Z

As it turns out, Perl is amazing! Find out why, and how to start using it.

Here's an obligatory dice roller written in Perl.


#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

my $num_args = $#ARGV;

if ($num_args < 0) {
  print "\nYou must provide a number of sides for the dice.\n";
  exit;
}

sub roller{
  my $roll = int(rand($_[0]));
  print $roll+1, "\n";
}

roller($ARGV[0]);
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Links:
Perl tutorial
Perl
CPAN

Listen: Ogg 428 | Opus 428

2021-10-03T23:29:42Z

The oprofile and p2c packages.

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Links:
oprofile
Free Pascal

Listen: Ogg 427 | Opus 427

2021-09-26T11:49:54Z

Mercurial version control, and assembly with nasm.

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Links:
Mercurial
nasm tutorial from Loyola Marymount University

Listen: Ogg 426 | Opus 426

2021-09-19T08:36:48Z

GNU make and some listener email.

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Links:
Make

Listen: Ogg 425 | Opus 425

2021-09-12T21:37:12Z

The rest of llvm, some listener email, and then a quick and simple introduction to m4.

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Links:
llvm-mc
m4

Listen: Ogg 424 | Opus 424

2021-09-05T07:58:41Z

The llc, lli, llvm-ar, llvm-as, llvm-bcanalyzer, llvm-c-test, llvm-config, and llvm-cov commands from the d software series of Slackware. Also, an off-script rogue demo of lcov.

There isn't much of a logical flow to these commands, but here are a bunch of examples to demonstrate syntax:

  
$ clang -E -emit-llvm hello.c > hello.i
$ clang -S -emit-llvm hello.i # outputs hello.ll
$ llvm-as hello.ll            # outputs hello.bc
$ llc hello.bc -o hello.s     # outputs assembly
$ llvm-as hello.bc -o hello.s # outputs assembly
$ llvm-ar r hello.a hello.bc  # outputs hello.a
  

For llvm-gcov:

  
$ clang -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage hello.c
$ ./hello
$ llvm-gcov show hello.c
$ lcov --capture --initial --directory . -o hello.info
$ genhtml hello.info --output-directory html
$ firefox ./html/index.html
  
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Links:
LLVM
Bindable readline commands
lcov

Listen: Ogg 423 | Opus 423

2021-08-30T16:40:58Z

llvm-query, llvm-rename, clang-tidy, and git-clang-format, from the d software series of Slackware.

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Links:
LLVM

Listen: Ogg 422 | Opus 422

2021-08-22T11:12:10Z

A long answer to a short question: how did Klaatu get a remote gig?

Also, rlwrap, a wrapper to provide GNU readline functions to arbitrary commands, musings about distributions and derivations, Slackware 15 release candidate has been released, and more.

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Links:
rlwrap
Hakerdefo's .nanorc
A Rust implementation of a trash utility: waste-paper-basket

Listen: Ogg 421 | Opus 421

2021-08-15T10:04:55Z

Some listener feedback about COBOL, and then the first six commands included in the LLVM package from the d software series in Slackware.

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Links:
LLVM

Listen: Ogg 420 | Opus 420

2021-08-08T16:14:53Z

help2man, indent, kernel headers, intltool, libtool from the d software series in Slackware.

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Links:
libtool docs

Listen: Ogg 419 | Opus 419

2021-08-01T14:01:15Z

Listener feedback, Apple does not use the BSD kernel, an overview of GNU Guile.

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Links:
GNU Guile
Scheme programming language

Listen: Ogg 418 | Opus 418

2021-07-25T16:55:11Z

GNU COBOL and gperf from the d software series of Slackware Linux.

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Links:
GNU COBOL
gperf

Listen: Ogg 417 | Opus 417

2021-07-18T11:24:39Z

Learn git with git-cola.

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Links:
git series on Hacker Public Radio
git-cola

Listen: Ogg 416 | Opus 416

2021-07-11T12:21:58Z

A quick overview of gettext followed by all the tools in the gettext-tools package.

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Links:
gettext
gettext utilities

Listen: Ogg 415 | Opus 415

2021-07-04T16:23:37Z

The GNU Debugger (gdb) from the d series of Slackware Linux.

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Links:
gdb tutorial
gdb docs

Listen: Ogg 414 | Opus 414

2021-07-04T16:23:37Z

Choosing a programming language.

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Links:
Darklang blog posts

Listen: Ogg 413 | Opus 413

2021-06-27T13:20:00Z

gappletviewer, gc-analyze, gcj, gcj-dbtool, gcjh, gij, gjar, gjarsigner, gjavah, gjdoc, gkeytool, gnative2ascii, gorbd, grepjar, grmic, grmid, grmiregistry, gserialver, gtnameserv, jcf-dump, jv-convert, rebuild-gcj-db and gcc-objc from the d software series of Slackware.

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Links:
Adopt OpenJDK
GNU Jar utilities
Etoile
WindowMaker

Listen: Ogg 412 | Opus 412

2021-06-21T08:03:25Z

gcc-go and gcc-java from the d software series of Slackware.

Here's how to create a working JAR file using gcj and fastjar:


$ #create some Java code
$ cat << EOF >> hello.java
> class Main {
> public static void main(String[] args) {
>    System.out.println("Hello Java World");
> }}
> EOF

$ #Create a manifest file
$ mkdir META-INF
$ echo "Main-Class: Main" > META-INF/MANIFEST.MF 

$ #Compile Java into bytecode
$ #This creates a file called Main.class
$ gcj -C hello.java
$ file Main.class
compiled Java class data, version 49.0 (Java 1.5)

$ #Create the jar file
$ fastjar cvf my.jar META-INF Main.class

$ #Run the jar with Java
$ java -jar my.jar
Hello Java World

$
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Links:
Go
Adopt OpenJDK
GNU Jar utilities

Listen: Ogg 411 | Opus 411

2021-06-14T09:28:12Z

Listener feedback, Fortran, and Ada.

Here's an Ada dice roller. First, create a file called random_number.adb. This is the random generator function, and it accepts the integer I as input, and returns an integer X as output:


with Ada.Numerics.Discrete_Random;

function Random_Number (I : Integer) return Integer is
  subtype Random_Range is Integer range 1 .. I;

  package R is new Ada.Numerics.Discrete_Random (Random_Range);
  use R;

   G : Generator;
   X : Random_Range;

begin
   Reset (G);
   X := Random (G);
   return X;
end Random_Number;

Create a second file in the same directory called main.adb. This is the front-end part of the application. It accepts a number in the form of -d 20 or -d 6 from the user at launch. It sends that number to the random generator function, gets a random number up to the number, and printts the result.


with GNAT.Command_Line; use GNAT.Command_Line;
with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
with Random_Number;

procedure Main is
   ROLL: Integer;
   
begin
  loop
    case Getopt ("d:") is
       when 'd' =>
          -- random number
          ROLL := Random_Number(Integer'Value(Parameter));
          
          Put_Line ("You roll: " & Integer'Image(ROLL));
      when others =>
        exit;
    end case;
  end loop;

end Main;

Compile, and then run.


$ gnatmake main.adb
$ ./main -d 20
18
$ ./main -d 6
3
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Links:
gcc-gfortran
gcc-gnat
Learn about Ada
How ELF binaries run
Ian Lance Taylor's 6-part series about linkers

Listen: Ogg 410 | Opus 410

2021-06-07T11:50:30Z

doxygen and gcc from the Slackware d software series.

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Links:
Doxygen
GCC

Listen: Ogg 409 | Opus 409

2021-05-31T14:02:17Z

Fedora Silverblue revisited, remapping the caps lock key in Wayland, and other musings.

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Links:
Silverblue
GNOME 40
Pakrat launcher

Listen: Ogg 408 | Opus 408

2021-05-25T07:07:34Z

CVS from the d software series of Slack.

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Links:
GNU CVS

Listen: Ogg 407 | Opus 407

2021-05-16T13:58:57Z

You don't have to be a "technical person" to use Linux.

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Links:
Ubuntu Linux
OpenSuse Linux
CentOS Linux

Listen: Ogg 406 | Opus 406

2021-05-10T19:26:42Z

Cmake.

The demo Cmake script from this episode is :


cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)

project(World VERSION 1.0)

add_executable(World world.c)

file(COPY assets DESTINATION "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}")

target_include_directories(World PUBLIC "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}")

install(TARGETS World)
install(DIRECTORY assets/ TYPE DATA)
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Links:
Cmake

Listen: Ogg 405 | Opus 405

2021-05-03T13:02:37Z

ccache and clisp from the d software series of Slackware.

Here is a quick and simple dice roller script done in Lisp:


#!/usr/bin/clisp

(defun roller (num)
  (pprint (random (parse-integer (nth 0 num))))
)

(setf userput *args*)
(setf *random-state* (make-random-state t))

(roller userput)
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Links:
GNU Common Lisp
sbcl
Clojure
Fennel
Racket
GNU Guile
Autumn Lisp game jam
Spring Lisp game jam

404 | Episode not found

2021-05-01T15:22:11Z

404 episode not found

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Links:
w3.org

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2021-04-25T15:22:11Z

The bison and yacc commands from the d software series of Slackware.

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Links:
bison

Listen: Ogg 402 | Opus 402

2021-04-18T20:51:24Z

Finishing up with binutils with a look at ranlib, readelf, size, string-GNU, strip, and an brief mention of windmc and windres.

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Links:
binutils

Listen: Ogg 401 | Opus 401

2021-04-12T08:24:33Z

Thoughts on the changing face of free and open source software.

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Links:
You service isn't open

Listen: Ogg 400 | Opus 400

2021-04-05T08:59:45Z

gprof, ld.bfd, ld.gold, nm, objcopy, and objdump from the d series.

Note that for best results when using many of these binutil tools, you must compile all of your targets with the GCC -pg and -g options.

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Links:
Ian Lance Taylor's 6-part series about linkers
binutils

Listen: Ogg 399 | Opus 399

2021-03-26T11:15:14Z

c++filt, dlltool, dllwrap, dwp, and elfedit from the d series.

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Links:
binutils
OpenSuse MicroOS

Listen: Ogg 398 | Opus 398

2021-03-22T05:23:25Z

addr2line, ar, as, ld from the binutils package. Here is an example of the code and commands used for the as and ld example:


$ cat << EOF >> hello.c
> #include 
> int main(void)
> { printf("hello world\n");
>   return 0; }
$ cpp hello.c > hello.i
$ gcc -S hello.i 
$ as -o hello.o hello.s 
$ ld -static -o hello \
-L/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-slackware-linux/5.5.0/ \
/usr/lib64/crt1.o /usr/lib64/crti.o hello.o \
/usr/lib64/crtn.o  --start-group -lc -lgcc \
-lgcc_eh --end-group
$ ./hello
hello world
$

The library paths are specific to Slackware, but are similar on other distributions.

Here are some additional shownotes by @linuxoid@mastodon.ml:

The detailed process of transforming C source code to a binary execution module for your operating system consists of 4 step (utilities) and 5 files on disk:

  1. hello.c - C source with macros
  2. hello.i - text file with expanded macros but still C code.
  3. hello.s - a text file in Assembly language.
  4. hello.o - binary object code with instructions to the processor, but offsets there are not tied to memory areas relative to other object files and libraries.
  5. hello - a binary executable file, with all object objects inside (maybe static libraries), ready for execution with the loading of linked dynamic libraries (*.so files in your OS distribution).

The 4 steps of compiling are:

  1. *.c -> (preprocessing: cpp)-> *.i
  2. *.i-> (translating: gcc)-> *.s
  3. *.s-> (assembing: as)-> *.o
  4. *.o-> (linking: ld)-> module_to_run

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Links:
binutils

Listen: Ogg 397 | Opus 397

2021-03-15T12:08:48Z

Interview with Herag, from the Anarcho Book Club podcast.

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Links:
Anarcho Book Club

Listen: Ogg 396 | Opus 396

2021-03-08T19:08:28Z

Makefiles, GNU Automake, and autotools in general.

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Links:
Automake

Listen: Ogg 395 | Opus 395

2021-03-01T05:24:18Z

Musings about community and choice in Linux and open source.

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Links:
Slackware

Listen: Ogg 394 | Opus 394

2021-02-22T07:44:22Z

GNU autoconf from the Slackware software series d.

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Links:
GNU autoconf
Why use autotools (Hacker Public Radio)
How to use autotools (Hacker Public Radio)

Listen: Ogg 393 | Opus 393

2021-02-15T10:58:31Z

Listener feedback, and an email about some blog posts about CentOS.

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Links:
RHEL replaces CentOS
CentOS Stream community report
Rock Linux

Listen: Ogg 392 | Opus 392

2021-02-08T05:23:14Z

Thoughts about the new Gemini Internet protocol, and a demonstration of some basic Cython from the d software series of Slackware Linux.

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Links:
Cython
Gemini

Listen: Ogg 391 | Opus 391

2021-02-01T00:39:56Z

All about workbone , xfsdump , and zsh from the AP software series of Slackware Linux.

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Links:
XFS dump
Oh my Zsh

Listen: Ogg 390 | Opus 390

2021-01-25T12:16:08Z

vbetool , Vim , plus vorbis-tools , including ogg123 , oggdec and oggenc , ogginfo , vcut , and vorbiscomment .

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Links:
Vim
Ogg Vorbis

Listen: Ogg 389 | Opus 389

2021-01-17T21:55:08Z

Hardware review of the Devastator 3 keyboard and mouse, and all about tmux, plus an obligatory mention of usbmuxd.

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Links:
Devastator3 by Coolermaster
tmux

Listen: Ogg 388 | Opus 388

2021-01-11T10:22:45Z

CentOS is dead or reborn? Also, all about Texinfo and why it's better than man and groff.

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Links:
CentOS (Stream)
Rocky Linux
Texinfo

Listen: Ogg 387 | Opus 387

2021-01-04T10:38:05Z

A look at iostat, mpstat, cifsiostat, tapestat, sar, sadf, sadc, and terminus-font.

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Links:
Samba project
Terminus font

Listen: Ogg 386 | Opus 386

2020-12-28T10:29:33Z

All about squashfs-tools and sudo.

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Links:
SquashFS docs
sudo

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2020-12-21T19:18:22Z

An introduction to SQLite.

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Links:
SQLite

Listen: Ogg 384 | Opus 384

2020-12-14T07:26:56Z

soma and sox.

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Links:
SoX docs
SoX tutorial
SomaFM

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2020-12-07T06:24:42Z

Linux, Flatpaks, Android apps, and ChromiumOS on a Lenovo Chromebook.

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Links:
Building ChromiumOS
Google API maze
depot_tools
Board codenames for build targets

Listen: Ogg 382 | Opus 382

2020-11-30T06:10:47Z

seejpeg, slackpkg, and related hacks.

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Links:
SearchSBO utility
SBopkg
sbq for building queue files

Listen: Ogg 381 | Opus 381

2020-11-23T09:47:22Z

rzip, sc, GNU Screen, from the ap software series of Slackware.

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Links:
rzip.samba.org
GNU Screen
sc-im
is a fork of sc

Listen: Ogg 380 | Opus 380

2020-11-16T17:25:35Z

qpdf and its surprising PDF cracking ability, radeon-tool, and rpm, from the ap software series of Slackware.


$ qpdf example.pdf --pages example.pdf 1-10 -- output.pdf
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Links:
rpm.org
qpdf

Listen: Ogg 379 | Opus 379

2020-11-09T11:04:31Z

Listener feedback, the Powertop package, and the state of Slackware in 2020.

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Links:
Powertop presentation

Listen: Ogg 378 | Opus 378

2020-11-02T06:41:38Z

normalize (sometimes packaged as normalize-audio) , pa-mixer, and pm-utils from the ap software set of Slackware Linux.

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Links:
pa-mixer

Listen: Ogg 377 | Opus 377

2020-10-26T19:28:06Z

Fedora Silverblue.

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Links:
Fedora Linux

Listen: Ogg 376 | Opus 376

2020-10-19T09:33:32Z

Listener email and a look at GNU Nano from the ap package set of Slackware Linux.

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Links:
GNU Nano

Listen: Ogg 375 | Opus 375

2020-10-12T06:24:15Z

The music players mpg123 and moc (mocp), plus the popular mc file manager and most pager.

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Links:
pagers in Slackbook

Listen: Ogg 374 | Opus 374

2020-10-05T06:53:19Z

An introduction to the mariadb database and the mysql command.

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Links:
MariaDB
MariaDB tutorial

Listen: Ogg 373 | Opus 373

2020-09-28T12:07:53Z

madplay, abxtest, and the man package of the ap Slackware package set.

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Links:
Keen for a game? Join Klaatu's online tabletop RPG
Slackware package list

Listen: Ogg 372 | Opus 372

2020-09-21T21:26:16Z

History of containers, and a look back at this past weekend's Open Jam game jam.

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Links:
History of sandboxes
OpenJam
Unveil

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2020-09-13T21:24:23Z

Get started with containers with lxc. Also covered in this episode: the lzip command.

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Links:
Linux Containers

Listen: Ogg 370 | Opus 370

2020-09-07T08:08:14Z

lm_sensors, lsof, and lsscsi.

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Links:
lm_sensors
lsscsi

Listen: Ogg 369 | Opus 369

2020-08-31T10:36:02Z

The final binaries in linuxdoc-tools, most notably sgmldiff and xmlto.

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Links:
xmlto

Listen: Ogg 368 | Opus 368

2020-08-24T12:58:31Z

More about linuxdoc-tools, including some basic info about SGML and DTD.

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Links:
gtk-doc manual

Listen: Ogg 367 | Opus 367

2020-08-17T07:56:16Z

Hey, it's time for another Debian anniversary.

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Links:
Debian

Listen: Ogg 366 | Opus 366

2020-08-10T12:44:25Z

libx86 and linuxdoc-tools, including Asciidoc and Docbook.

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Links:
Asciidoc
Docbook
libx86

Listen: Ogg 365 | Opus 365

2020-08-01T17:42:32Z

The Korn shell.

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Links:
Korn shell

Listen: Ogg 364 | Opus 364

2020-07-27T17:07:40Z

The joe and jove

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Links:
joe website
jove FTP site

Listen: Ogg 363 | Opus 363

2020-07-20T16:04:06Z

The ispell, itstool, and the jed text editor.

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Links:
ITS
Jed

Listen: Ogg 362 | Opus 362

2020-07-13T16:22:36Z

Gutenprint, HPLIP, and htop from Slackware software set AP.

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Links:
htop
Gutenprint
HPLIP

Listen: Ogg 361 | Opus 361

2020-07-06T08:13:34Z

Pdfmom is a macro set for Groff meant to make it simple and intuitive. Here's an example MOM document.


.TITLE  "My example mom doc"
.AUTHOR "Klaatu"
.CHAPTER 1
.DOCTYPE CHAPTER
.PRINTSTYLE TYPESET
.PT_SIZE 10
.LS      12
.START
.PP
This is some sample text.
I hope it comes out alright.
It probably will.
Thanks to \fBpdfmom\fP.

Process it with the pdfmom command:


$ pdfmom example.mom > my.pdf
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Links:
Groff
Pdfmom overview

Listen: Ogg 360 | Opus 360

2020-06-29T07:00:27Z

gdiffmk for producing diffs of groff files.

glilypond for integrating lilypond musical notation into grof files:


    $ glilypond --pdf2eps -t ./b -- example.1 > example.ps.1
    $ groff -p -Tps example.ps.1 > out.ps
    $ okular out.ps

The grap2graph command to convert grap graphs to a bitmap. This requires the grap command, which does not ship with Slackware.


    $ cat internet.d | grap2graph -format jpg -density 300 > my.jpg

The grn command is a preprocessor for Gremlin files. It appears to be non-functional, but it's possible that an additional back-end is required.

The grodvi command converts Groff to DVI for TeX. It's basically a shortcut for

groff -Tdvi
.

Have your computer guess what groff command you need with grog


    $ grog blah.1
    groff -man blah.1
    $ grog -Thtml blah.1
    groff -Thtml -man blah.1
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Links:
Groff
Grap
Lilypond music notation language

Listen: Ogg 359 | Opus 359

2020-06-22T07:31:25Z

More about groff.

Here's a math equation:


.EQ
e = mc sup 2
.EN

# prepocess math equation and convert to pdf
$ eqn my.ms -Tpdf | groff -ms -Tpdf > my.pdf
# or just use groffer
$ groffer -e example.ms -ms

Quick conversion of an equation in eqn format to a bitmap:


$ echo "e = mc sup 2" | eqn2graph -format jpg -density 300 > my.jpg

Chemistry:


.cstart
R1: ring pointing right
R2: ring pointing right put C8 at 4 put H10 at 5 with .V6 at R1.V4
.cend

$ chem example.chem | groffer -p
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Links:
Groff

Listen: Ogg 358 | Opus 358

2020-06-15T06:32:53Z

Listener email about simple-mtpfs, and then groff and groffer from Slackware ap software series.


$ simple-mtpfs --list devices
$ sudo simple-mtpfs --device "1: blah (MTP)" --verbose /mnt/floppy/
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Links:
simple-mtpfs
GNU troff (groff)

Listen: Ogg 357 | Opus 357

2020-06-08T06:49:56Z

Despite its name, gphoto2 is more than just a command to control a camera over USB. It also interfaces with MTP file systems, like the one you might run on your mobile device. Find out more in today's exciiiiiting episode.


$ gphoto2 --auto-detect
$ gphoto2 --abilities
$ gphoto2 --list-folders
$ gphoto2 --upload-file ~/path/to/file --folder /folder_name/
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Links:
Use Gphoto to get files from your computer onto your mobile
Try Share to computer to get files from your mobile to you computer

Listen: Ogg 356 | Opus 356

2020-06-01T11:04:49Z

Learn a little Postscript in this episode about Ghostscript.

Here's the example Postscript discussed in this episode:


%!PS
1.0 setlinewidth 
10 60 newpath moveto
60 60 lineto
60 10 lineto
10 10 lineto
closepath
1 0 1 setrgbcolor fill
grestore
%%0 setgray
stroke

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Links:
Ghostscript

Listen: Ogg 355 | Opus 355

2020-05-25T21:37:26Z

enscript and flac from the ap software series in Slackware.

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Links:
Xiph

Listen: Ogg 354 | Opus 354

2020-05-18T14:51:39Z

dmapi, dmidecode and related tools, and dvd+rw-tools from the ap software series in Slackware.

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Links:
Systems Management:Data Storage Management (XDSM) API

Listen: Ogg 353 | Opus 353

2020-05-11T15:38:38Z

Using open source in real life.

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Links:
Mumble
Makeself.io

Listen: Ogg 352 | Opus 352

2020-05-03T15:16:40Z

A look at the diffstat, cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff commands.

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Links:
Testdisk and photorec
GNU diffutils
diffstat

Listen: Ogg 351 | Opus 351

2020-04-27T13:15:19Z

CUPS filters, dc3dd, ddrescue from Slackware set ap.

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Links:
CUPS filters

Listen: Ogg 350 | Opus 350

2020-04-20T15:46:46Z

How to get to the CUPS interface through a terminal web browser, like w3m,lynx, or elinks.

The philosophy and culture of bug reporting:

  1. A bug is any unexpected interaction between you and a product.
  2. A bug report offers you an opportunity to troubleshoot a problem. Ideally, it results in a solution before even being filed. Otherwise, it is a recipe for the developer to experience the same problem as you have.
  3. Bug reporting is collaboration. When you file a bug, you are not disturbing the developers, nor are you exposing them as poor or nefarious programmers. You are developing along with them in an attempt to optimize an application you love.
  4. A good bug reporting tool is also a task management tool.

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Links:
Bugzilla
Mantis

Listen: Ogg 349 | Opus 349

2020-04-13T11:41:29Z

All about printers and printing with the CUPS and lpr commands.

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Links:
CUPS.org

Listen: Ogg 348 | Opus 348

2020-04-06T12:45:50Z

Musing about the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS). Next episode will be about the CUPS and lpr command set.

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Links:
CUPS.org

Listen: Ogg 347 | Opus 347

2020-03-30T06:36:55Z

Cloud, containers, and cgmanager from the ap software series.

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Links:
LXC
Kernel namespaces

Listen: Ogg 346 | Opus 346

2020-03-23T07:08:16Z

Words of encouragement and solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Links:
World Health Organization
IBM and RHEL and the fight against COVID-19
Stay in touch over Matrix and IRC

Listen: Ogg 345 | Opus 345

2020-03-23T06:00:54Z

The many commands of the cdrtools package, including a bunch of useful utilities for .iso files, such as isoinfo and isodump.

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Links:
ISO-9660

Listen: Ogg 344 | Opus 344

2020-03-16T06:21:32Z

The bpe binary patch editor, cdparanoia, and cdrdao.

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Links:
Podnutz.com
Hexdump
Seth Frightening, a CC-NC-ND album

Listen: Ogg 343 | Opus 343

2020-03-09T14:35:48Z

Licensing, and how non-open corporations are inadvertently flattering open source.

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Links:
opensource.org

Listen: Ogg 342 | Opus 342

2020-03-02T21:30:03Z

Listener feedback from beegrrl about OOP, and bc from ap.

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Links:
bc
an amazing calculator in pure Bash by Wei-Lun Chao

Listen: Ogg 341 | Opus 341

2020-02-24T06:10:34Z

The journey through the Slackware ap software set continues. The amp mp3-to-wav converter, ash shell, and the at, atq, atrm, batch commands.

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Links:
AP software set

Listen: Ogg 340 | Opus 340

2020-02-16T16:05:28Z

Thoughts about licensing. Coffee. Then thoughts about Java.

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Links:
AdoptOpenJDK.net

Listen: Ogg 339 | Opus 339

2020-02-09T18:19:48Z

All about troubleshooting audio on Linux.

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Links:
ALSA project
JACK audio
Pulse audio

Listen: Ogg 338 | Opus 338

2020-02-03T14:50:49Z

alsa-utils from the ap software series of Slackware. Lots of interesting utilities in this package, including one that enables you to send MIDI signals across your network so you can (for example) connect a USB controller to office office computer and generate sounds on the computer in your studio.

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Links:
ALSA project

Listen: Ogg 337 | Opus 337

2020-01-27T12:41:49Z

The acct command from the Slackware ap software series.

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Links:
gnu.org/software/acct

Listen: Ogg 336 | Opus 336

2020-01-20T10:51:48Z

Listener feedback.

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Links:
Markdown opinion by mdoc programmer Ingo Schwarze
Geek social fallacies

Listen: Ogg 335 | Opus 335

2020-01-13T06:16:23Z

The ending of the a2ps package, including psdiff, psbook, psmandup, psresize, psselect, and texi2dvi4a2ps. The greatest mystery is the showchar command, which appears to do nothing.

Upon further investigation (after recording), it seems that a2ps as distributed by Slackware also contains a collection of scripts called psutils, which provides fix*, ps*, eps*, *res, and showchar scripts.

The psutils collection is not yet in Slackware-current, so it is possible that it has been dropped from distribution. In the latest psutils sources, showchar appears to have been removed.

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Links:
gnu.org/software/a2ps
psutils

Listen: Ogg 334 | Opus 334

2020-01-06T06:35:56Z

The ap software series, starting with the a2ps package, containing some useful and some obscure PostScript utils.

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Links:
gnu.org/software/a2ps

Listen: Ogg 333 | Opus 333

2019-12-30T10:49:30Z

Win conditions in open source

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Links:
opensource.com

Listen: Ogg 13xmas | Opus 13xmas

2019-12-24T17:29:52Z

Holiday bonus episode.

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Links:
Slackware Linux

Listen: Ogg 13x52 | Opus 13x52

2019-12-22T15:27:35Z

xz and zoo and the end of 2019.

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Links:
An article claiming that the Xz format [is] inadequate for long-term archiving

Listen: Ogg 13x51 | Opus 13x51

2019-12-16T19:55:10Z

The which and xfs-progs from the a Slackware package set.

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Links:
xfs.org

Listen: Ogg 13x50 | Opus 13x50

2019-12-09T21:53:21Z

Listener feedback.

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Links:
Debian Linux

Listen: Ogg 13x49 | Opus 13x49

2019-12-02T21:23:03Z

wall, whereis, and write: the final 3 commands in the util-linux package.

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Links:
Linux kernel

Listen: Ogg 13x48 | Opus 13x48

2019-11-25T21:43:51Z

/usr/bin/u* of the util-linux package, plus listener feedback.

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Links:
Linux kernel

Listen: Ogg 13x47 | Opus 13x47

2019-11-18T08:06:33Z

Starting and finishing the t section of /usr/bin from the util-linux package: tailf and taskset

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Links:
Linux for the Rest of Us podcast

Listen: Ogg 13x46 | Opus 13x46

2019-11-11T08:01:13Z

Finishing up the s section of /usr/bin from the util-linux package. This episode covers script, scriptreplay, setarch, setsid, and strings.

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Links:
Multilib on Slackware

Listen: Ogg 13x45 | Opus 13x45

2019-11-04T08:12:21Z

An exciting Linux origin story (thanks to Grant), and the reset (also called tset) and rev commands from util-linux.

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Links:
Slackware Linux
Patrick Volkerding's Patreon

Listen: Ogg 13x44 | Opus 13x44

2019-10-28T21:56:48Z

Listener feedback, including some neat rename and Bash tips.

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Links:
Ronald's rename command
Buy the Lua+Pi book (Klaatu contributed to it heavily) from Humble Bundle for $1

Listen: Ogg 13x43 | Opus 13x43

2019-10-22T01:22:10Z

Klaatu is back in New Zealand after the All Things Open conference in Raleigh, NC. In this episode, Klaatu responds to some long-neglected listener feedback (if you spoke to Klaatu at the conference, or have emailed him recently, Klaatu is not ignoring you, he's just slowly catching up). Also, Klaatu talks about the website freesvg.org.

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Links:
Creative Commons
Freesvg.org

Listen: Ogg 13x42 | Opus 13x42

2019-10-14T19:21:30Z

On the road during the All Things Open conference, Klaatu talks about how to make ebooks from various sources, with custom CSS, using the Pandoc command.

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Links:
All Things Open conference

Listen: Ogg 13x41 | Opus 13x41

2019-10-07T05:14:25Z

The pg pager, prlimit, renice, and using rename to rename multiple files at once (like with Thunar, but with your terminal!)

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Links:
Emacs Conf is a virtual conference starting on day 306 of this year

Listen: Ogg 13x40 | Opus 13x40

2019-09-30T10:27:23Z

Is an open source operating system important?

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Links:
Slackware
Fedora

Listen: Ogg 13x39 | Opus 13x39

2019-09-23T22:24:56Z

Listener feedback, the nsenter command by way of unshare and Linux namespaces. If you're new to "cloud" computing and containers, these are technical building blocks.


// On old util-linux:

$ ls /proc/*/ns

$ ls /proc/722/ns
ipc net pid user uts [...]

$ pidof tcsh
// nothing

$ sudo pidof tcsh
// nothing

// launch tcsh in a new namespace with unshare:

$ sudo unshare --fork --pid --mount-proc tcsh

// from within that session:

$ pidof tcsh
pid 1

// wait what??
// yes tcsh is the first pid of its own namespace

// from another term
$ ps 1
init

$ pidof tcsh
26814

$ ps tree | less
// search for tcsh

// child processes of tcsh are also assigned to its namespace
// from the namespaced tcsh:

$ ping 8.8.8.8
[...]

$ pidof ping
pid 23

// from another term:

$ pidof ping
pid 26923
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Links:
Hackernoon and the curious case of PID namespaces

Listen: Ogg 13x38 | Opus 13x38

2019-09-16T19:55:44Z

First up: all about mcookie, mesg, and namei from util-linux. Then, a discussion of how one might transition to running Linux exclusively.

Do you have a story of how you switched to Linux full-time? Do you not run Linux and just run as much open source as possible? E-mail Klaatu at this domain and share your story.

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Links:
Switching to Linux

Listen: Ogg 13x37 | Opus 13x37

2019-09-08T22:32:45Z

Musings about 1337.

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Links:
Jargon file about the term "elite"

Listen: Ogg 13x36 | Opus 13x36

2019-09-01T15:32:44Z

Slackware Linux has a Patreon account, and /usr/bin/l* from util-linux.

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Links:
Donate to Slackware Linux

Listen: Ogg 13x35 | Opus 13x35

2019-08-26T14:55:49Z

Recorded during Klaatu's stay in the US, more or less in response to someone commenting about him running Lua out of /opt, this episode is all about the /opt directory. It's also being posted a lot later than intended, so ignore the incorrect date.

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Links:
Solaris Transition Guide

Listen: Ogg 13x34 | Opus 13x34

2019-08-20T16:43:04Z

Klaatu podcasts from a hotel in San Diego on his way to Open Source Summit 2019.

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Links:
Open Source Summit

Listen: Ogg 13x33 | Opus 13x33

2019-08-13T15:42:15Z

Klaatu podcasts whilst stranded in the Greyhound terminal 4E in Richmond, Virginia.

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Links:
Open Source Initiative
Not Greyhound

Listen: Ogg 13x32 | Opus 13x32

2019-08-05T14:14:43Z

A nextcloud tip. Also, the power user conundrum.

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Links:
Nextcloud.com

Listen: Ogg 13x31 | Opus 13x31

2019-07-29T15:56:15Z

Here's the ipc* (from util-linux) demo in this week's episode.

Create a message queue with ipcmk:


$ ipcmk --queue
Message queue id: 294914

View available queues:


$ ipcs | head
$ ipcs | head
key        msqid  [...] used-bytes   messages    
0x98544aba 294914       0              0
[...]

  

Write an application to send messages:


#include <sys/ipc.h>
#include <sys/msg.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

struct msgbuffer {
  long tag;
  char txt[128];
} message;

int main() { 
    int msqid = 294914;
    message.tag = 42;
    strcpy(message.txt,"hello world");
    msgsnd(msqid, &message, sizeof(message), 0);
    printf("Message: %s\n",message.txt);
    printf("Queue: %d\n",msqid);
    return 0; }
  

Compile it and run it:


$ gcc msgput.c -o msgput
$ ./msgput
Message: hello world
Queue: 294914
$ ipcs | head
key        msqid  [...] used-bytes   messages    
0x98544aba 294914       136            1
[...]
  

Compose an application to retrieve messages:


#include <sys/ipc.h>
#include <sys/msg.h>
#include <stdio.h>

struct msgbuffer { 
    long tag;
    char txt[128]; 
} message; 

int main() { 
    int msqid = 294914;
    msgrcv(msqid, &message, sizeof(message),42,0);
    printf("\nQueue: %d\n",msqid);
    printf("You got mail: %s\n", message.txt);
    msgctl(msqid,IPC_RMID,NULL);
    return 0;
} 

Compile and run:

  
$ gcc msgcheck.c -o msgcheck
$ ./msgcheck
hello world
$ ipcs | head
key        msqid  [...] used-bytes   messages    
0x98544aba 294914       0             0
[...]

  
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Links:
Generate passwords with LessPass
Generate passwords on ss64.com
Personal password algorithms

Listen: Ogg 13x30 | Opus 13x30

2019-07-22T21:02:34Z

Fight the cloud by storing your passwords locally. In this episode, Klaatu praises the pass command.

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Links:
Pass
passffFirefox extension

Listen: Ogg 13x29 | Opus 13x29

2019-07-15T14:07:44Z

All about hexdump from util-linux.

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Links:
Making sense of Hexdump on suse.com
PNG spec

Listen: Ogg 13x28 | Opus 13x28

2019-07-08T14:45:40Z

The fallocate, fdformat (sort of), and the flock commands from util-linux.

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Links:
util-linux

Listen: Ogg 13x27 | Opus 13x27

2019-07-01T19:18:04Z

Listener feedback, and a short review of GNOME 3.

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Links:
fix_tags by Dave Morriss

Listen: Ogg 13x26 | Opus 13x26

2019-06-24T11:36:01Z

Listener feedback, and then a bunch of stuff about for-loops and batch processing.

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Links:
Bash For-loops

Listen: Ogg 13x25 | Opus 13x25

2019-06-17T21:26:03Z

Short show this week, due to a move to the south island. Klaatu talks about metadata.

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Links:
Early KLATU prototype (the second "a" made all the difference)

Listen: Ogg 13x24 | Opus 13x24

2019-06-07T23:41:01Z

The ddate command from the util-linux package, and all about Discordianism and the Church of the Subgenius!

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Links:
Church of the Subgenius
Free slack!
Manufacturing slack at home

Listen: Ogg 13x23 | Opus 13x23

2019-06-02T09:29:11Z

Listener feedback, plus colrm and column from util-linux.

Tip: To get information about strange characters in GNU Emacs, place your cursor on the character and then type Alt-x describe-char


$ cat example.txt
hello world
$ cat example.txt | colrm 1 1
ello world
$ cat example.txt | colrm 1 6
world

$ column --table /etc/fstab

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Links:
BSD4.3-Reno release announcement (historical)

Listen: Ogg 13x22 | Opus 13x22

2019-05-26T23:58:15Z

Why use the Linux desktop if the Desktop is dead anyway?

Also, more util-linux: cal, chrt, col, and colcrt from /usr/bin.

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Links:
Switch to Linux

Listen: Ogg 13x21 | Opus 13x21

2019-05-20T23:43:29Z

Listener feedback about zram and ziptool, and then a discussion about the term "open"

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Links:
Open Source Definition
Why Open Source Misses the Point

Listen: Ogg 13x20 | Opus 13x20

2019-05-13T10:58:30Z

Finishing up the binaries in /sbin from the util-linux package. Includes sfdisk, swaplabel, swapon, swapoff, switch_root, wipefs, ziptool, and zramctl.

For zramctl to work, remember to load the zram module.


    $ sudo modprobe zram
    
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Links:
The Linux Boot Process series by Dann (on Hacker Public Radio)

Listen: Ogg 13x19 | Opus 13x19

2019-05-06T10:34:11Z

Listener feedbacks from Mastodon, including commentary about the Julian calendar, Flatpak sandboxing problems, Flatpak usability problems, clarification on Bzip2 and LZMA and ZIP compression.

The overview of util-linux continues with mkswap, which designates a partition of a special hard drive or a special file as "swap" space. NEVER run mkswap on a partition or file that contains data you care about.


$ sudo mkswap /dev/sdx1

The pivot_root command mounts a new location as your root whilst simultaneously unmounting the old one. You probably won't ever use pivot_root manually yourself. Its typical use case is during system startup, when an initrd is used to bootstrap an environment but then needs to be shunted away when the real root partition becomes available.

You can test pivot_root in a virtual machine, just as a proof of concept, as described in this episode, but if you have ever used chroot, then you have

The raw command talks directly to block devices, useful for fancy databases or other high-performance things that don't need a filesystem because they use their own optimized system for managing data. On some systems (like Slackware), you may need to do modprobe raw before using raw.

NEVER run raw against a block device with data (that you care about) on it. Here is a really simple proof of concept demo exercise:


# raw /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/sdx
# echo "gnu world order" > /dev/sdx
# dd if=/dev/raw/raw1 count=1
gnu world order
[...]

The setserial command sets and reports serial ports on a Linux system. On Slackware, you can see the script that generates serial port definitions in /etc/rc.d/rc.serial, with its associated config file being /etc/serial.conf On a distro using systemd, there is a unit file that creates serial ports. Serial ports are usually accessible to the group dialout, so if you are having trouble talking to a device over a serial port, be sure to add yourself to the dialout group, and then log out and log back in. Permissions for devices that communicate over a serial port (like an Arduino) can be managed manually (chmod 660 /dev/ACM0, for instance) or you can script udev to set permissions upon connection.

In the original release, there was a mixing error at the start. This has been fixed, and the SHA256 sums have been updated below.

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Links:
7-zip
documentation.help/7-Zip-18.0/7z.htm

Listen: Ogg 13x18 | Opus 13x18

2019-04-29T11:17:15Z

Is it really possible to use CentOS or RHEL as a desktop Linux distro? Klaatu finds out!

If you try running CentOS or RHEL, add the RPMFusion and Flatpak repositories for best results:


$ sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck \
https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-7.noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-7.noarch.rpm
$ sudo yum install --assumeyes flatpak-builder flatpak xdg-desktop-portal
$ sudo flatpak remote-add flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
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Links:
CentOS
RHEL

Listen: Ogg 13x17 | Opus 13x17

2019-04-22T11:47:30Z

Listener feedback from Carl about gauging community health of a project before getting involved with it. Klaatu has defined five community profiles, but has no definitive answers. Listen in and send in commentary if you have ideas on this topic.

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Links:
LinuxQuestions.org the official Slackware support community (such as it is)

Listen: Ogg 13x16 | Opus 13x16

2019-04-15T15:37:32Z

Are Flatpaks and Snaps a regression in security? and other exciting listener debates.

Util-link continued, continuing with utilities in /sbin:

  • sbin/ctrlaltdel

  • sbin/fdisk

  • sbin/findfs

  • sbin/fsck

  • sbin/fsck.cramfs

  • sbin/fsck.minix

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Links:
fdisk on TLDP
Becoming a Snap developer
Signing snap packages
Signing a Flatpak with flatpak-builder

Listen: Ogg 13x15 | Opus 13x15

2019-04-08T14:04:57Z

Util-link continued, starting with the utilities in /sbin:

  • sbin/adjtimex

  • sbin/agetty

  • sbin/blkdiscard

  • sbin/blkid

  • sbin/blockdev

  • sbin/cfdisk

Plus some listener feedback about getopt and getopts, bzip2, good bad sound, and more.

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Links:
flame war on unix.stackexchange.com about getopt, getopts, and homebrew solutions

Listen: Ogg 13x14 | Opus 13x14

2019-04-01T23:18:23Z

Let's build a flatpak together!

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Links:
flatpak.org

Listen: Ogg 13x13 | Opus 13x13

2019-03-25T15:15:35Z

Listener feedback. GNU World Order is voted best Linux Podcast of 2018 by linuxquestions.org but fame is fleeting, and it is no longer 2018. Bzip2 compression. You should run bzip2 compression tests and send Klaatu your results. Controversy over scripts that download and install automatically. A bakery that runs on Emacs and PostgreSQL. Further Grav commentary. Pico CMS. And more!

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Links:
Bakery running on Emacs and Postgres
Pico CMS
LinuxQuestions.org for all your Linux answers

Listen: Ogg 13x12 | Opus 13x12

2019-03-18T14:26:19Z

The journey through the util-linux from the a package set of Slackware continues. First, a tutorial on getopt, an argument parser for Bash and Tcsh. Here is a demonstrative sample script:


#!/usr/bin/bash
## or you can just use /bin/sh

OPTS=`getopt --options f --long foo --alternative -- "$@"`

eval set -- "$OPTS"
echo "Raw input: $OPTS"

while true ; do
    case "$1" in
        -f|--foo) echo "Option f has been toggled on" ; shift ;;
        --) shift ; break ;;
    esac
done

# this outputs anything
# left over after parsing
# valid options
for i in "$@" ; do
    echo "$i"
done

You can add more options, and you can add an allowance for arguments. Here is a slightly more complex version of the script:


#!/usr/bin/bash

OPTS=`getopt --options f,b: --long foo,bar: --alternative -- "$@"`
eval set -- "$OPTS"
echo "$OPTS"

while true ; do
    case "$1" in
        -f|--foo) echo "Option f has been toggled on" ; shift ;;
        -b|--bar) echo "Option b has been set to $2" ; shift 2 ;;
        --) shift ; break ;;
    esac
done

for i in "$@" ; do
    echo "$i"
done

After the coffee break, Klaatu covers kill. Because he recorded this episode on the same night as the previous episode, he does make reference to some settings from the previous episode (specifically, a hostname setting). That makes this episode a sequel to the previous one, meaning Klaatu owes you an extra episode sometime.

Also, mountpoint, mount, unmount, wdctl and watchdog

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Links:
gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Example-of-Getopt.html
A great article about the eval and set on Linux Journal
Watchdog daemon
Systemd interface to Watchdog

Listen: Ogg 13x11 | Opus 13x11

2019-03-11T14:53:27Z

Heaps of listener feedback about licensing, the difference between a user and a developer, the atool archive tool, old GNU World Order shownotes, the first couple of applications from util-linux: dmesg, findmnt, hostname, more.

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Links:
Slackermedia
OpenPublicApp.com
OpenPublic on Drupal

Listen: Ogg 13x10 | Opus 13x10

2019-03-04T06:24:26Z

Coffee across the globe. From the a package set of default Slackware packages: udisks, udisks2 (udiskctl), unarj, upower, usb_modeswitch, usbutils, and the utemptor interface to utmp, btmp, and wtmp.

Udisks is a friendly interface for interacting with drives.


$ udisks --enumerate
/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdc1
/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdc2
/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdc
/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sde
[...]
/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdf1
$ udisks --mount /dev/sdf1
Mounted /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdf1 at /media/white8gb
$ udisks --unmount /dev/sdf1

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Links:
udisks

Listen: Ogg 13x9 | Opus 13x9

2019-02-24T20:29:59Z

Episode audio levels adjusted, Flatpak tips, and three great coffees in downtown Raleigh North Carolina. Finishing up the applications-that-start-with-"t" from the a set of Slackware: time (not the built-in Bash one) and tree.

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Links:
Flathub, home of many a flatpak
Tama Caféin Raleigh, NC
Sienna Cafe in the Sheraton Lobby

Listen: Ogg 13x8 | Opus 13x8

2019-02-17T21:59:52Z

Webhosting.coop vouchers, THE CLOUD is just a virtual computer on somebody else's (or your own?) cluster of computers, building dependencies on things you already own.

In the t packages in the a set: heaps of tar tips, and some thoughts about tcsh.

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Links:
webhosting.coop
Hyperpolyglot shell syntax

Listen: Ogg 13x7 | Opus 13x7

2019-02-11T03:29:46Z

Deep thoughts about licensing, effective licensing, and why groups of free software developers haven't the luxury of turning a blind eye.

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Links:
Developing Games with Lua

Listen: Ogg 13x6 | Opus 13x6

2019-02-05T23:41:57Z

Tech talk, licensing, ZFS, and more.

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Links:
Developing Games with Lua

Listen: Ogg 13x5 | Opus 13x5

2019-01-28T16:02:23Z

Klaatu talks about software licensing as related to ZFS, and then covers the S section of the a package set in Slackware (he also realises mid-way through that he had already covered the q and r sections and part of the s section, but nobody complained about it, so presumably they were all worth a second look).

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Links:
Software Freedom Conservancy blog post regarding CDDL and GPL incompatibility

Listen: Ogg 13x4 | Opus 13x4

2019-01-20T10:55:36Z

Klaatu installs ZFS and creates a ZFS USB drive. Continuing his review of all packages installed with Slackware, he talks about reiserfs and rpm2tgz.

Finally, a thoroughly biased unbiased review of the amazing webhost cooperative, webhosting.coop.

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Links:
rpm2tgz

Listen: Ogg 13x3 | Opus 13x3

2019-01-13T20:32:51Z

All about the quota command from Slackware package set a


# enable quota in /etc/fstab
# for example:
# /dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults,usrquota 0 2
#
# then remount the partition:

% whoami
% root
% mount -o remount /

# create quota index:

% quotacheck --user --create-files --no-remount

# if it fails with
## cannot stat() /dev/root
# then this is a workaround:

% ln -s /dev/sda1 /dev/root

# now turn quota on:

% quotaon /

# set quota amounts with

% setquota --help

# or

% EDITOR=emacs edquota klaatu
  
  
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Links:
Arch Wiki entry on quota

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2019-01-07T07:51:04Z

Lister feedback, a new book, Lua, Luarocks, and much more.


--[[ GNU All-Permissive License

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-- main.lua

vw = 720
vh = 480

function love.load()                                                    
   -- loads once at launch
   love.window.setMode(vw,vh,{resizable=false, vsync=false})
   love.window.setTitle('Dice')
   math.randomseed(os.time())
   computer = math.random(1,20)
   player = math.random(1,20)
end

function love.draw()
   love.graphics.setColor(255, 255, 255)
   if player > computer then
      love.graphics.printf("Player wins!",0,vh*0.5,vw*0.5, 'center')
   else
      love.graphics.printf("Computer wins!",0,vh*0.5,vw*0.5, 'center')
   end
end
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Links:
Developing Games on the Raspberry Pi
Webhosting.coop
ZFS on Linux and BSD and Illumos

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2018-12-31T10:42:26Z

Season 13 begins! We have switched to a fancy new hosting provider, Webhosting.coop, a cooperative web hosting organization run in part by Josh Cox, a long-time supporter of the show.

Introductory episodes about Linux and Slackware have been posted. If you're new to Linux, start with these episodes!.

In this episode, Klaatu reads some listener feedback, and then ponders why we don't just build open source on Windows or Mac.

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Links:
Webhosting.coop

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2018-12-25T15:29:07Z

A bonus episode to get you through the holiday: solo gaming and a neat adventure game engine called Twine, plus a review of 10 randomly-chosen lightweight distributions.

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Links:
Twine
Using Twine and SugarCube to create interactive adventure games
itsfoss.com/lightweight-linux-beginners
Winter solstice

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2018-12-23T03:26:26Z

A review of 2018 and open source, including the Purism laptop, Eelo, Proton, Krita, GIMP 2.10, Appimages and Flatpak, and lots lots more.

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Links:
Purism
E (formerly Eelo)
Krita
GIMP 2.10
Appimage
Flatpak

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2018-12-17T00:00:37Z

Believe it or not, there's more discussion about ZFS in this episode. (Klaatu has, oddly, completely forgotten that he's actually running ZFS on OpenIndiana, and has been for months; more on this next month). Also, switching from Thunderbird to KMail.

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Links:
ZFS on Debian
FreeBSD ZFS root
ZFS on Slackware
ZFS root on Slack
ZFS deduplication
ZFS deduplication article
ZFS manual from Oracle
ZFS in the FreeBSD handbook

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2018-12-09T22:18:22Z

More listener email about ZFS. Noise music. More about workflows, and how to find the right application for your task.

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Links:
fawn.garden
Godstream, a noise album by Klaatu

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2018-12-03T02:11:05Z

Linux has lots of creative apps, but how do they all fit together? That's obviously a big question with lots of different answers, but in this episode, Klaatu provides a real world example of the different applications involved in publishing a tabletop card game.

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Links:
Slackermedia.info/workflows
Chronicles & Commons podcast
Petition the card game infosite
Buy Petition the card game

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2018-11-25T23:49:51Z

Listener feedback about otters and ZFS, and Klaatu tries Steam Play and the Proton (WINE) layer.

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Links:
Proton
WINE

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2018-11-19T02:04:57Z

SMART monitoring tools: smartctl and smartd. Also, why Klaatu has left JFS for good and is adopting that fancy new file system, EXT4.

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Links:
GSmartControl the GUI app
smartmontools

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2018-11-12T13:51:01Z

A history lesson from some great listener feedback, social speculation, and a review of slocate.

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Links:
findutils

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2018-11-05T16:37:18Z

IBM acquires Red Hat. Listener feedback, including Git stash, Lutris, and a recommendation for gamejolt.com

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Links:
Gamejolt.com
Gamejolt Client on Github/

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2018-10-29T12:01:31Z

Coffee with lunch, and how to correctly set the default entry in GRUB 2.

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Links:
GRUB docs

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2018-10-22T14:12:25Z

Listener feedback, and learning new things. Also, musings about sweet tea, because technically Klaatu is in the American South, at the All Things Open conference, right now.

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Links:
Fossil and Git compared
All Things Open

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2018-10-14T06:37:37Z

Some tips about gamepads on Linux, plus an overview of Antimicro. Also, Microsoft joins the Open Invention Network and brings its 60,000 patents along with it. Could this mean fancy things like native NTFS and exFAT support? the end of patent trolling? Klaatu speculates.

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Links:
Microsoft announces OIN membership
What does Microsoft joining the OIN mean for you
Antimicro
Antimicro profiles
All Things Open

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2018-10-08T14:29:45Z

A quick episode about broadwayd, which is not a musical venue, but a cool display server that runs GTK3 apps in a web browser.

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Links:
broadwayd

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2018-10-01T05:44:40Z

Listener email, and some pretty neato POSIX tips.

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Links:
apenwarr.ca/log/20110228
etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html

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2018-09-24T14:44:24Z

Itch.io, the other other place for gaming on Linux.

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Links:
Itch.io
Open Game Jam 2018

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2018-09-17T11:02:02Z

A review of Lutris, the open gaming platform. Also, thoughts about learning new technology, based on Klaaut's experience with Fossil, compared to Git.

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Links:
Lutris.net
Fossil-scm.org

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2018-09-10T21:38:02Z

Klaatu reviews Jeff Bigler's blog post from 22 years ago about the communication gap between nerds and "normal" people.

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Links:
www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html

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2018-09-03T10:48:19Z

A sed tip, a killall comment, Steam rumours confirmed, and the woeful 90-10 problem.

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Links:
My go-to sed cheatsheet is sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt

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2018-08-27T21:13:01Z

Fedberry, the latest Fedora remix for the Pi 2 and 3. Also, rumours about Steam OS shipping with a compatibility layer so you can play Windows games on Steam OS. The rumour mill spins faster than this show's release schedule, and apparently Valve has confirmed that it is going to ship a boosted version of WINE in SteamOS.

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Links:
Fedberry
Proton: compatibility tool for Steam Play based on WINE and other components from Valve

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2018-08-20T11:27:35Z

Quota, rpm2tgz, sdparm, sed, shadow, and shar.

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Links:
Setting up quotas

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2018-08-13T11:44:19Z

A quick Git tip for tagging releases in an automated way, and some responses to listener feedback.

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Links:
Slackermedia Queue file gen script

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2018-08-05T17:53:22Z

Listener feedback, Slackware donations, and musings about how the modern Internet is financed.

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Links:
paypal.me/volkerdi
blubrry.com/gnuworldorder
This show at blubrry.com/gnuworldorder
This show at gpodder.net

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2018-07-30T18:27:11Z

The art and science of software evaluation.

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Links:
Programming in Lua book
A new Jabber server is 404.city

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2018-07-23T12:03:58Z

Can you find the PID of a process, then learn what command launched it, and then kill or modify it? Listen to this episode, all about procps-ng, and you will!

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Links:
gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps

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2018-07-17T12:38:28Z

Bonus episode! 25 reasons to try Slackware on its 25th anniversary.

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Links:
Slackware
Slackermedia announcement on comp.os.linux (warning: Google group archive)
Try Slackware 1.0
AlienBOB packages
SlackBuilds.org
Slackermedia

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2018-07-16T16:18:42Z

Slackware packages in the a package set. In this episode, OpenSSL, osprober, patch, pciutils, pcmciautils, pkgtools.

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Links:
ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware-14.2/slackware

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2018-07-09T18:50:20Z

8 reasons to use Guile from listener @ixn, and a little bit about packaging up a kernel upgrade on Slackware.

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Links:
GNU Guile
Guix GNU/Linux

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2018-07-02T13:40:49Z

A buncha listener feedback, with a few tips and tricks, courtesy of you.

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Links:
github.com/joshuacox/skill-GNUworldOrder teaches Mycroft about GWO
Keychain is a manager for ssh-agent

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2018-06-25T12:19:36Z

Seven reasons you should be using Lua.

  1. Procedural programming and anonymous functions.

    See Lua for Python programmers for examples.

  2. Luarocks.org package manager.

  3. Predictable syntax.

    
    $ python
    >>> foo = 10
    >>> if foo is 10:
            print("yes")
    >>> if foo is less than 10:
            print("yes")
    Error.
    
  4. Arrays, lists, dicts, and arrays-of-arrays are out. Tables and metatables are in!

  5. Tabs are optional.

  6. The the LÖVE game engine.

  7. GUI frameworks.

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Links:
Lua.org
Lua for Python programmers
Luarocks.org
LÖVE game engine
TekUI
SUIT
Luce

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2018-06-18T18:38:09Z

In praise of Nextcloud.

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Links:
Nextcloud

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2018-06-11T10:18:44Z

Listener feedback from Brian, blu3r4d0n, and Josh. A bunch of stuff about Github, Microsoft, trust, and free software.

If you want to increase the distribution of your published code, here is a way to push to several remotes. In your project's .git/config file, you can list more than one remote:


[remote "origin"]
    url = git@github.com:notklaatu/foo.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[remote "upstream"]
    url = git@myrepo.local:klaatu/foo.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

You can pull from one to the other:


$ git pull upstream master

You can push to both.


$ git push origin master
$ git push upstream master

There are a few ways to implement this. Listen to Klaatu's HPR episode on the subject for more options.

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Links:
Why Free Software needs Free Tools by Benjamin Mako Hill
nmtui
Gitolite self-hosted Git
Hacker Public Radio episode on Gitolite
notabug.org open source Git hosting
As recent as 2006 but no big deal
Hacker Public Radio episode on mirroring Git repositories

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2018-06-04T15:58:16Z

Here's a howto for nmcli.

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Links:
nmcli docs from the Fedora project

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2018-05-28T14:32:43Z

From the a set of Slackware: maketag, mcelog, mdadm, minicom, mkinitrd, mt-st, mtx, (n)compress, and ntfs-3g.

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Links:
mcelog.org is a good way to learn about low-level logging

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2018-05-21T13:48:59Z

How to reduce the size of bloated PDFs. Use this tip judiciously, as it does lossy compression of PDFs, but it might be useful in some cases. Also, pointless Slackware predictions and another LVM tip.


gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook \
-dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf -dDownsampleColorImages=true \
-dColorImageResolution=150 someBigFile.pdf
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Links:
Slackware
LinuxQuestions.org
milan.kupcevic.net/ghostscript-ps-pdf/ is a great reference for PDF options

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2018-05-13T21:22:10Z

F-f-f-Flatpak! an uncomprehensive first impression.

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Links:
Flatpak
Flathub

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2018-05-06T16:42:50Z

Use LUKS for disk encryption. You can even use it to encrypt thumbdrives. It's easier than you think!

If you're using the whole disk:


# cryptsetup --verify-password -v luksFormat /dev/sdX

Or you can just encrypt a partition. From setup to encrpytion of the second partition of the imaginary /dev/sdX:


    # parted /dev/sdX mklabel gpt
    # parted /dev/sdX mkpart primary 1s 50%
    # parted /dev/sdX mkpart primary 50% 100%
    # cryptsetup --verify-password -v luksFormat /dev/sdX2
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Links:
LUKS gitlab repo

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2018-04-30T12:50:27Z

A tour of LVM. This show covers setting up LVM manually, which can be useful since often LVM is setup magically during installation. Hopefully, this overview will clarify what LVM does, what it's capable of, and how you can interact with it.

Here are the steps I did on this episode:

First, assuming you need to format the imaginary drive /dev/sdX:


# echo "warning, this ERASES everything on this drive."
warning, this ERASES everything on this drive.
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX count=8196
# parted /dev/sdX print | grep Disk
Disk /dev/sdX: 1000GB
# parted /dev/sdX mklabel gpt
# parted /dev/sdX mkpart primary 1s 100%

That was setting up the drive. Your first actual LVM command creates a storage "pool". A pool can consist of one or more drives, and right now it only consists of one, but hey you have to start somewhere.

In this example, I call my storage pool billiards but you can call it anything.


  # vgcreate billiards /dev/sdX1

Now you have a big, nebulous pool of storage space. Time to hand it out. Here I create two "logical volumes" (you can think of them as virtual drives), one called chronicles and the other called gnuworldorder:


  # lvcreate billiards 66G --name chronicles
  # lvcreate billiards 82G --name gnuworldorder

So now I have two "drives" carved out of my storage pool, but neither of them have file systems on them yet. So, create a file system on each.

Before I can do that, I have to bring the volume group billiards online, or "activate" it:


  # vgchange -ay billiards

Now make the file systems:


  # mkfs.ext4 -o Linux -L chronicles /dev/billiards/chronicles
  # mkfs.ext4 -o Linux -L gnuworldorder /dev/billiards/gnuworldorder

Mount these drives more or less as usual:


  # mount /dev/billiards/chronicles /chronicles
  # mount /dev/billiards/gnuworldorder /gwo

You can add space to your pool by formatting another drive and then throwing it into the pool:


  # part /dev/sdY mkpart primary 1s 100%
  # vgextend storage /dev/sdY1
  # lvextend -L +100G /dev/billiards/gnuworldorder
  # lvextend -L +100G /dev/billiards/chronicles

And finally, there are two informative commands to get an overview of your storage infrastructure:


  # vgdisplay
  # lvdisplay
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Links:
LVM2 official website
LVM administration

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2018-04-23T13:58:07Z

Klaatu continues his tour of all the little packages that are installed on your Linux box. In this episode: JFS, kbd utils, kmod, less, lha and lrzip compression showdown, libcgroup, libgudev, lilo, logrotate, and LVM.


I'll probably cover this, along with LUKS, in the next episode, but since it was mentioned, here is how I install the OS on a single LVM-enabled drive, and then add more drives with LVM later.


Assuming that you have Linux installed on a drive that is a single LVM volume group, then boot into your OS, and begin:


  1. Partition your un-used hard drive. Assuming you have only two drives in your machine, let's call the first /dev/sdX and the second /dev/sdY (in reality, the values are probably sda and sdb, but to protect you from copy-paste disasters, I use placeholders).

    First, find out how big your disk is:

    
    # parted /dev/sdY print | grep Disk
    
  2. For the sake of this example, let's say your drive is 1200100MB (1TB) in size.

    Create a partition that spans the whole drive:

    
    # parted /dev/sdY mkpart primary 1 1200100
        
  3. Flag it as an available entity in your storage pool.

    
    # pvcreate /dev/sdY1
    	
  4. OK, now you have a drive prepped for use, but we should pause and look at our imaginary setup. In order to add this new drive to an LVM volume group, we need to know what volume groups we have. Your OS installer might have created this for you, or it might be something you very consciously designed yourself. Either way, you can see what you have available:

    
    # vgdisplay
    storage
    
  5. OK, so we have a volume group called storage. Currently, we happen to know that storage contains only your first drive; the one that you installed your OS onto. But you want to make that bigger by adding a second drive to it. This is called extending your volume group.

    
    # vgextend storage /dev/sdY1
        
          
  6. Now we have a pool that has access to two partitions, but we are still not actually using the second partition.

    A volume group contains logical volumes, and it is to those volumes that you can add disk space by drawing from the available disks in the group.

    To check what logical volumes you have:

    
    # lvdisplay
    

    To check physical volumes for size:

    
    # pvdisplay
        
          
  7. Armed with a mental map of how your partitions and system are each laid out, you can now extend the logical volume. Let's say that your installer placed /home into its own partition. You would see it as a logical volume, and you can extend its size:

    
    # lvextend -L +999G /dev/storage/home
        

    That would, as you can probably guess from the command itself, extend the logical volume containing your home folders by 999Gb.

  8. Well, almost anyway. It has extended the space available to the logical volume, but it has not actually stretched the file system across all that new space yet.

    To make all that extra space readable and writable, you must resize it:

    
    # resize2fs /dev/storage/home
        

    Verify what you have just done:

    
    # df -h /home
    1889T
    

Your home directory is now nearly 2TB in size, and the fact that the file system spans two separate physical volumes is entirely transparent to the OS.

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Links:
libcg
libgudev

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2018-04-16T11:37:33Z

Why should you use open source for your next project? Klaatu tells all!

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Links:
OpenSource.org
Free Software Foundation

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2018-04-10T13:47:39Z

Listener feedback.

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Links:
Parallel video tutorials
youtube-dl

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2018-04-02T15:39:40Z

Klaatu installs NetBSD on a Raspberry Pi rev 1. Klaatu attempts to kill its FFS file system LIVE ON AIR. Long story short: you should go install NetBSD on a Pi.

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Links:
NetBSD.org
Raspberry Pi page on NetBSD.org
Journaling Versus Soft Updates: Asynchronous Meta-data Protection in File Systems

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2018-03-25T20:25:57Z

Learn how to use Slackware tag files to customize a Slackware install, plus the secret of how to perform a Slackware install in less than half a gigabyte.

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Links:
Outdated but useful: minimal Slackware install

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2018-03-19T09:59:01Z

Exploration of the Slackware install set continues with inotify, some install scripts, ISA plug-and-play, jfsutils, kbd, kernel packages, with a few detours into the world of gzip redirection, some stuff about grep, and a howto on compiling the Linux kernel.

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Links:
Slackware package list

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2018-03-12T09:37:34Z

Klaatu gushes over Porteus, the portable Slackware distribution.

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Links:
Live Slackware from Alien Bob
Porteus

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2018-03-05T18:15:26Z

Klaatu tries pkgsrc on Slackware, and you won't believe what happens next. But to sum it up: it's super easy to implement, easy to use, and pretty nifty.

To get pkgsrc on your Linux OS:

Download:


  $ wget ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current.pkgsrc.tar.gz

Extract it to /usr:


  # su -
  # tar --extract --verbose --file pkgsrc.tar.gz -C /usr

Bootstrap pkgsrc:


  # cd /usr/pkgsrc/
  # ./bootstrap

Adjust paths:


  # echo "PATH=$PATH:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin" >> ~/.bashrc
  # echo "export $PATH" >> ~/.bashrc  
  # echo "MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/pkg/man" >> ~/.bashrc
  # echo "export $MANPATH" >> ~/.bashrc

Build something:


  # cd /usr/pkgsrc/foo/bar
  # make install
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pkgsrc

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2018-02-26T15:41:56Z

A bunch of listener feedback. Hear about old time sci fi internet shows, runtimes, and much much more, not the least of which is an open source audio converter powered by LibreOffice spreadsheet.

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Links:
Claybourne, a Kiwi SF radio drama from the 90s
GNU docs on CHM, worth reading for the dedication alone
Sheety Audio Converter by Doru
Resolving HDR with spreadsheets by Kevin Chen

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2018-02-19T12:09:32Z

We hope you find this episode useful.

Here are Ken Fallon's shownotes:

A good alternative to ls:


find -ls

Find this, and then do that:


find -type f -iname "*txt" -exec grep cows {} \;

Identify symlinks when I need to redirect stuff from one data store to another:


find -type l

Useful for listing just directories, and getting around the annoying habit of ls *, which returns the files in sub dirs.


find -maxdepth 1 -type d

The prune option can exclude results:


find . -iname "*.wav" -type f -o -prune "./foo"

Identify empty files:


$ find -empty
foo

$ find -empty | xargs --max-args 1 trashy

As a cron job to remove old log files


0 23 * * * find /var/log -iname "~*" -o -iname "*log*" -mtime +30 -exec
trashy {} \; > /tmp/removing-old-logs.txt 2>&1

The mtime option allows you to limit a search to files older than, but also files newer than, some value * 24. It's great for when you bring up a new service that's logging something but you don't know where.

For bash scripts, I use this format a lot:


for foo in $( find /var/tmp/ -type f -name "foo.bar");do echo $foo;done

or like this


find /var/tmp/ -type f -name "foo.bar" | while read foo;do echo $foo;done

It's amazing how often I run this


find -type f -iname "*.something" -exec ls --full-time {} \;

or this


find -type f -iname "*.something" -exec grep something {} \;

Usually I throw in the -maxdepth option to limit the search depth.

Use the ipath or iwholepath to scrub a path for a string.


find -ipath "*something*"

Then there's this type of construct for tools like ffmpeg and xmlstarlet that don't love wildcards from for loops.


find -type f -iname "*.xml"| while read i;do xmlstarlet sel -T -t -m
'rss/channel/item/enclosure' -v '@url' -n "${i}";done

Then there's the awkward way it handles multiple options:


find \( -ipath "*foo*" -o -ipath "*bar*" \) -exec rm -v {} \;

Note: locate and updatedb use find in the background.

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Links:
GNU findutils
GNU findutils user manual

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2018-02-14T14:30:00Z

Klaatu, whilst stranded in a hotel somewhere in middle America after a delayed flight, reviews his new InkBook Classic 2 ebook reader, which has replaced his broken Kobo n905.

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Links:
Android open source

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2018-02-08T04:44:37Z

Klaatu expounds upon xargs and talks GNU parallel. Also, a bit about the concept of runtimes.

Here is a recent real-world benchmark comparing parallel to xargs:


$ time find . -type f -name "*.wav" | xargs -I% --max-args 1 sox % %.flac

real    1m5.364s                                                                        
user    1m3.907s                                                                      
sys     0m1.424s

$ time find . -type f -name "*.wav" | parallel -I% --max-args 1 sox % %.flac

real    0m22.743s
user    1m21.780s
sys     0m1.400s

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Links:
GNU Parallel
Dark oCCult build script using GNU parallel

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2018-01-27T20:06:25Z

All about the GNU xargs command.

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Links:
GNU findutils

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2018-01-23T22:06:18Z

A bonus episode this week. Klaatu talks about getty, agetty, inittab, gawk, and more.

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Links:
History of BeOS
Haiku is an open source BeOS

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2018-01-23T04:33:47Z

Klaatu talks about BeOS, Haiku, elvis, e2label, mlabel, and much more. Either next week or the week after, let's do an episode on find. Send Klaatu your cool find hacks!

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Links:
History of BeOS
Haiku is an open source BeOS

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2018-01-15T01:56:19Z

Klaatu introduces his podwrite tool, his custom toolkit for publishing this show and his Chronicles & Commons show.

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Links:
Podwrite on Gitlab
Podwrite documentation
The excellent Wordpress plugin, Podpress, is easier but harder to automate

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2018-01-08T15:38:02Z

Klaatu continues his tour of the low level Linux filesystem, covering exciting commands like attr, the GNU coreutils, infocmp, and more.

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Links:
Linux from Scratch

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2018-01-01T18:02:05Z

Linux user, know thyself. It's a new year and a new season, and the GNU World Order is now officially an Ogg Vorbis and Opus cast. Although there is no speex feed now, there is no need to update your feed. The old speex feeds are symlinked to the new Opus feed.

In this episode, Klaatu takes a look at all those little files that get installed when you install Linux, like libgmp, libglib, libgobject, libpanel, libusb, and many many more.

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Links:
Slackware package set a